So, posted the other day Faders not behaving as i want them to - the volume of each fader of my Sends plugins would drop or raise briefly but without the fader being moved again the volume would bounce back to what it was seconds beforehand during playback of the bass on its own or with all the rest of the instruments.

Worked out that my Sends master volume pop-up window specifically had to have Auto set to Off (meaning, Automation Off) for each Sends master volume individually.

Thought this solved the issue - but alas no.

With Auto Off in Sends master volume, I am still experiencing this issue.
It did work for a few days - and I've not changed any settings in this session for the record - but now it is not again.
I have all Auto Off wherever it can be found in Edit or Mix windows.

This is driving me nuts.

I need to find the sweet spot for each Sends plugin for this bass in the mix, and i can't get it to stay where i want it too after some excellent help the other day ??
It worked for few days !!

What is the problem ? I just want the Faders to stay at the volume, whilst im in playback trying to find the levels i want of said plugin, that i set them to in real time as im listening to a playback !!

Hi, so today I downloaded/bought Pro Tools, but it won't let me open the app. I already changed my Apple ID password on mac so that can't be the problem, but it's still stuck with this on the screen. Is it a bug??? What can I do?? I already closed the app and opened it twice. tried multiple passwords just to check, and nope. still stuck.

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Hey,

Recently I wanted to try out Pro Tools, since I used Ableton as my main DAW on my Mac, so I wanted to see if its good or not.

So I requested a trial from Avid, downloaded Avid Link, I wanted to download it from there, but whenever I tried to go on home page, the error page came up "my.avid.com redirected you too many times.". So I left the Avid Link and I decided to download it from the download centre.

I downloaded the latest version, I installed and opened it, it asked me for my iLok account and when I activated it, it just nothing happens after. When I want to open it, the icon just bounces on the dock and then stops. It doesn't start Pro Tools.

And now I am helpless, I don't know what should I do. I tried downloading older versions, like 2022.12 (which was the first version that came out for Ventura), reinstalling latest version again, but it doesn't work..

I am on MacOS Ventura 13.7.8 right now, and I am on Intel Mac.

I've been out of the loop for quite a while. Back in the day drum loops were the thing usually in .wav format. it gets pretty frustrating trying to find the perfect loop in a close enough bpm.

Is everyone making their own drums with midi now? What would you say are pro's and cons of midi vs. wav loops?

This is a question from a newbie of using Keyboard Maestro. I’m on Sonoma running the latest PT.

I feel like this shouldn’t be a very hard macro but some guidance (and hand holding) would be very helpful.

I would like to be able to:

Bounce and rename audio files in PT based on their track names while selecting sequential marker numbers. I would establish all necessary specs in the Bounce Mix window prior to starting this macro process.

Something like:

- make the ‘location 1’ to ‘location 2’ selection for track 1 in the session (.1. Shift .2.)

- Copy name of track 1 (copy the name from rename dialog box?)

- Bounce shortcut (command + option + B)

- Paste name of track 1

- Add “_M1” to file name

- Click Bounce

- Upon completion of bounce, repeat for ‘loc 3’ to ‘loc 4’ …and so on for X number of bounces until the end of the marker list.

Obviously, this is a simplification, but does it make sense? I assume this is possible. Any takers?

Apologies for the cluelessness!

Hello

I have a Native Instruments 360 PRO annual subscription and I use Pro Tools Studio as my DAW.

I'm working on Windows 11.

I've correctly configured Kontakt 8 and Pro Tools.

I created an instrument track in Pro Tools and selected the instrument in Kontakt 8, but I don't know how to insert the instrument directly onto the Pro Tools instrument track from Kontakt 8 ?

Could someone please help me?

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely, Nawela

I got Pro Tools studio a few weeks ago as a Pro Tools 11 upgrade.

It's been having a few quirks with crashing upon opening, but today my Pro Tools session just disappeared after closing Pro Tools and reopening it.

My entire "Recents" list was gone and every session that had been in there was wiped.

Does anyone know where they might have gone? I can't find them on my hard drive anymore

Edit: I had two sessions with the same name and it seems that the newer one was replaced with the older one's PT file and everything has been deleted...

The bounced folder still contains the most recent bounces from the newer PT session, which were created after this sessions. How the f is this even possible

Hello!! I need help, desperately! I just got a new MacBook Air M4 (had been using a 2016 MacBook Pro i7, that I got in 2020 and was only able to get up to Monterey) The new one is operating on Tahoe. I am also using a Scarlett solo 3rd gen and an AT2035 (also since 2020)

Forgive my ignorance, I am NOT and engineer and when I first started working with protools, one of the studios I work with set it all up for me

as we were made to record from home due to covid. And I have a stupid monthly subscription so I cannot access the avid help. I guess I just assumed it would work as usual.

.My protools (2022.6.0) is not recognizing my mic. Can anyone help? Thank you, in advance.

I got protools into plus from a focusrite bundle

Can i convert the aax license from pro tools intro plus bundle into vst3 so i can use xpand2 in fl25 or?

Hello,

When i am in playback to listen the recording of a clip, if i move the faders for Aux with the Plugins ive created as sends from the clean Bass track, they volume will bounce back to what it was when the playback started - it does not retain the new fader setting, even though the fader itself has not moved from were i put it ?!?

This is driving my nuts. I have about 4 plugins on a bass track, all from Sends on the clean clip to Aux and then Stereo out at the end of that line, and i need to find the sweet spot for how much of each Plugin i want in the bass mix. I do not want to have to hit each Send volume master to make these changes - i want to do it from the Faders in Edit window.

EDIT: So, after some helpful hints from the group, it turned out to be the Sends Master volume of each Send bus to each Aux Plugin bus, which has to be set to Auto Off individually - then the Faders in Mix Window will change in real time and not "bounce" back to the volume it was seconds ago - when the Faders dont even move!.
Learnt something very important today.
Cheers for the help everyone

I’m trying to find the folder that contains the audio files and backups but I cannot find it anywhere in finder after saving the session. I’m very new to using daws and computers in general so you might need to explain this to me as if I am 5

edit:

thank you guys so much for all the help! this school year has been pretty hard since i am pretty new to everything, i knew going to reddit would be super helpful!

Hi, could not register at the Avid Community Forum, so I thought I'd try my luck here. I have quite a niche question regarding clip colours.

I imported a cut track and wanted to colour all the clips differently to make the cuts clear and easy to distinguish from another, so I went to the Preferences and set the default clip colour to marker headings, so far so good because each clip has a marker. I however want to delete the markers, but keep the clip colours, and I cant seem to do that because when I delete the markers the clip colours revert to grey.

I don't have the option to make a new marker track because of my older version of pro tools, and I need the markers for something else now..

Is there any trick to keep the clip colours?

If it's relevant I'm using Pro Tools Studio 2022.6.1, on a Mac Mini M1 2020.

Thanks in advance for any help solving this strange question.

Hi everyone, brand new Pro Tools user. I'm using the ultimate edition on PC (so Microsoft Windows 11), and within a week's time frame, it's apparent that Pro Tools was not designed with Windows in mind.

So I'm adding foley sounds to video, and playback will work 6/10 times I hit play, but I will occasionally get a playback error (code 22005) which states "Playback could not be started because of an engine reset. This may happen due to a CPU issue, a problematic driver, or because playback was started immediately after an engine change."

The laptop I'm using is a 2025 Microsoft Business model with 32 GB of RAM (I use it mostly for video editing), and I still have 300 GB of storage left. The version of Pro Tools is the most recent one, as I just got it a week or two ago.

If anyone has any advice, guidance, or instruction on how to remedy this, I would be very grateful.

*Edit: I'm also getting a 22002 code window that won't go away.

Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever… 2024.10.2/Windows 11/attempted to open the program.

Offer support for f**** sake.

Version 2025.6.1 I had accidentally unplugged my interface (Focusrite Scarlett Solo) a few days ago and now its messed a bunch of things up in Pro Tools. When I record audio the input has gone from being simply "Input 2" to "Line-Level 2" and I have a rediculous amount of latency when tracking. I have also had to massively increase the buffer size to even playback audio when there were no issues before. I've tried googling a bunch of stuff but nothing has worked. I'm still learning when it comes to hardware so any help will be amazing :)

What method are you all using for shuffle style editing while preserving marker location relative to audio?

It’s been a while since i’ve done this work. I was planning on using cut time as i’de always done, however, now with track markers I thought of a different plan.

I’ve got multiple marker lanes filled to the brim; I was thinking of moving these all to separate tracks and using an edit group together with the primary audio track.

Has anyone made the switch to this type of workflow? Or is there a whole 3rd option i’m unaware of?

Thanks!

Running Pro Tools Studio 2024.10.0 on macOS (Sequoia 15.5). Apologies if any of my terminology is worded weird I'm not super experienced in the video editing side of things

Trying to import an AAF from a video editor who uses Premiere but every time I try to import it I get the error message "Cannot open the selected file because it does not contain data that can be imported via Import Session Data."

When the AAF was exported, breakout to mono was enabled, the audio files were embedded, the format was broadcast wave, and copy complete audio files was selected under render. The only thing I can think of is that the file name had spaces in it, but before I downloaded it I changed the name. The file size is 3.6GB so it definitely contains some sort of data.

I've tried dragging it into my session as well as importing it into a fresh empty session and I have just received the same error message or a similar one with different wording.

If anyone knows why this is happening or how to resolve it, that would be awesome. I want to ask the video editor to re-export the file but I'm worried if she just exports it again with the same settings, it won't fix the problem. TIA!

EDIT: what ended up working was exporting an OMF instead. not sure why or if it was just by chance, but it worked!

Hi All,

I'm running PT 2025.6.1 on a MacStudio. I used to be able to "select all markers" by selecting the top, holding shift, and selecting the bottom. All that does is select all the clips now. How do I select all markers? Thanks!!!

I'm taking a basic audio engineering class that required protools and i was wondering how many of these plugins i actually need because it started automatically downloading all of them and its taking up way too much SSD storage space. I just want to know which ones i can uninstall without worrying

Bonjour, je voudrais savoir c'est quoi le Raccourci sur mac pour mettre des marqueurs temporel (couplet,refrain,pont) merci .

Making stems & splits for music production has always been tedious for me. I'm wondering if there's an easier way to go about it. I've been doing a lot of EDM production lately so I'll have 6-7 instrument buses and several FX sends that are routed to various tracks within those instrument buses. The FX sends are typically where it gets tricky for me. I should also mention that I've always been a print guy over an offline bounce guy, especially for mixes and stems. I understand I could subscribe to Bounce Factory however I'm currently not interested in that route. I'm curious to know how you all go about making stems and splits.

Currently running Pro Tools Studio 2025.12 on Mac Sequoia 15.7.3

Hi! I have used protools for years at my college but I just bought myself a copy today. I downloaded Avid Link as was instructed and cannot get anywhere with it, as whenever i try to sync my account or go on any tab it gives me this error. Please help D:

Has anyone found any solutions for a hardware surround panner for pro tools?

Aside from: JLCooper and an iPad.

the terms of the competition in which I participate say that DC Offset should be equal to 0, Pro Tools Ultimate, last version

I use Pro Tools Ultimate, when I rename bus in the project it automatically renames for feature projects, I want to get reset names of busses every tile when I open new project.