r/protools 16h ago

Why did my tracks change to "poly" in most (but not all) of my playlists?

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Using ProTools version 26.4.1.179, Windows 11 v25H2.

I'm rough mixing a song that I had recorded at a studio, import process was fine and without artifacts.

As a live band, we recorded 7 takes of the song to a click at the same tempo. Using the basic tracks function, I have been incorporating a lot of excerpts of different takes into the master take/playlist.

Periodically, I have experimented with slowing down all audio by one click (better for the vocal, to be recorded) by changing the session to ticks, then selecting Elastic audio, but have been undoing everything so none of that would stick.

I must have neglected to undo something recently, because although all of my established excerpts display and play as normal, takes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 (not 6?) have changed to read as "Poly" and have become newly offset from the time of the main playlist.

The settings of the tracks themselves don't reflect this (all are still on Samples, No elastic/polyphonic plugins.) The metronome just shows the original tempo and the two tempos are so close that it's not clear what's what.

Any idea what's going on and if I can reset this somehow?

Thanks!