jazzkat,
Pro Tools requires digidesign hardware. When you say mixers and preamps, it's not entirely true that you have to use Digidesign hardware. If you want to use a console that interfaces with Pro Tools, then yes you have to use Digidesign hardware. Pro Tools requires that the A/D engine (for lack of better term) be specific to Digidesign.
They make Pro Tools LE with different hardware like the MBox, M-Audio, etc. but you can't purchase just any interface and expect it to work with Pro Tools LE. I personally use an MBox to take full blown Pro Tools project from say a Nashville studio and dump them into my little Pro Tools LE software which allows me to edit tracks, cut and paste, yadda yadda. Does that answer your question?
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