Im new and this may well be a basic fix but I'm stumped. I got a new audio interface, mic and headphones. Every other day I open my computer ProTools freaks out and stops working correctly, even if it worked the day before. I don't know whats changing and there is no consistent fix. ProTools Intro 2024.10.2, windows 11.

I'm running intro, and not very impressed so far. I have a brand new FIFINE AmpliTank KS6 interface and mic. I have AudioTechnica headphones running from the 1/4 jack on the interface. They're set as my default system I/O in windows, and everything works great outside of ProTools. My microphone was working fine in ProTools though my interface 2 days ago, then I plugged my new headphones in today and everything is distorted again, can't figure it out.

Almost every time I reopen ProTools, or if I switch sessions, it deselects my input, and sometimes even after reselecting it and restarting my session, my input still doesn't appear on my tracks. It will only give me the bus list which isn't keyed to anything and I have no clue how to set it up honestly. But recently it has been working more often than not. The distortion is the main issue.

The big issue right now is that the input and output are extremely distorted, only in ProTools. There is an immediate buzzing through my headphones as soon as I start ProTools. It did this the other day over my laptop speakers before I had the interface, but it fixed itself for some unknown reason. The metronome, recorded tracks and imported beats are all distorted. I'm not sure if it's distorting my input, but it comes back distorted through my headphones. In the windows control panel, I and O are set to 16 bit 48khz, they're also the default devices and "exclusive control" is enabled for both. When I open a new session I choose 16 bit and 48khz, and use BWF .WAV, "Stereo" for I/O settings, with interleaved checked. In the I/O settings under "setup", both the I and O are set to stereo by default. My 2ndary gain knob and monitor output knobs are turned all the way down on my interface, I've tried starting ProTools with the mic gain knob on and all the way off, no difference. I don't think I need phantom power, and it was working without it the other day. Having direct monitor on or off on the interface doesn't seem to make a difference either. Sometimes when I open a beat in the windows media player there is some crackling in my headphones for a few seconds, but not every time. It seems to go away if I turn mic gain all the way down for some reason, but other times it stops itself after 5 or 10 seconds without touching the gain knob.

Do you have any ideas? This is seriously driving me insane. Any advice greatly appreciated.

Hey community, since today I suffer from latency in PT while my Buffersize is on 32 (recording vocals). And no matter what buffersize I choose the latency is the same. I haven't had that problem before. I'm using a MacBook Pro M4 24gb Ram and my interface is a UA Volt 2. And I’m using the latest pro tools pro version.

I tried recording in my other DAW (Reason) to test if there is the same problem but it ain't it works as normal. So I guess it's a software problem or maybe setting problem but I can't find the solution... Thanks in advance

Hey so I’m kinda new to audio editing and was wondering if anyone knew how to add this effect it’s at around 2:42 on the words lip gloss and crisscross

Thanks for any advice

I'm new to immersive audio and am struggling with the workflow! Is it possible to have a master bus plugin chain on all the tracks in immersive like you would with a typical stereo mix?

Hi everyone,

can somebody help me out with this ?

AAX (AutoAlign post 2) gets scanned, and activated, but it doesn't show up in audiosuite menu ?

Thanks in advance!

Hey there,

I'm very new to Pro Tools and am using the Ultimate 30 day free trial for a university project. I just did a bunch of work on a session and wanted to make it collaborative so i could get some help from friends, but I get this error message saying "There was an error posting the project." I've googled it but haven't found a solution so far. I'm working on a 2017 Macbook Air, macOS Monterey Version 12.3.

Hi,

I'm having an issue exporting raw tracks out of protools on my Mac. For some reason selecting all of the clips and consolidating only results in the first track being rendered.

I'm trying to consolidate all of the tracks so I can dump them into logic without any issues

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!

Hello,

Trying to use splice in pro tools as I already use it for samples in my bands live shows in ableton, but now seeing that splice bridge is not compatible with pro tools… is there a known work around for this? Really making me consider switching to logic if I can’t use something this simple.. also if other sample libraries that work in a similar way in pro tools I would be open to using them.

I have two monitors, running Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.6.0 on Mac Ventura 13.4.1

I may be misremembering, but I’ve used dual monitors before, and pressing “cmd =“ switched the positions of the screens. Yet, when I set up dual monitors on this system, “cmd =“ just changes the window that’s in focus.

Does anyone know how I can get it to swap windows instead?

my Mac just randomly updated which freaked me out because I'm using a perpetual PT 2021.6 which shouldn't be compatible with OS 15.4 but upon opening everything works fine? Is it a matter of time until it freaks out and stops working? do I need to get the new current PT now?? Is it worth the risk to keep it if it functions currently or not really?

I would love to use some of those Crunch presets on a mix in regular Pro Tools

Hi, reddit please come in clutch I'm losing my mind.

Only got protools because I have an interview at a studio soon and they specified proficiency in PT is essential so I swapped DAWs, I've been doing 2 or 3 different mixes/productions to learn the ropes and this problem keeps happening across all sessions.

Basically, my session keeps cutting out audio during playback then it freezes for I'd say 5 seconds or so, it konks out then comes back as in I can click things again, it doesn't say not responding at the top of the window it just ceases to function in any way, then quickly works again but no playback, I press play and nothing, the play button keeps flashing green. Found a fix on youtube to change buffer size, now this works so yay, but this keeps happening like every 5-20 minutes, constantly having to change buffer size back and forth is screwing my workflow so hard and I want an actual fix to the root cause.

Info: Windows 10, protools studio 2024.10.2 , focusrite scarlet with updated drivers, just updated my graphics drivers too.

Tried turning off all plugins still happens, just trashed my prefs and it still happens.

This happens when using plugins, when not using them, when recording, when simply monitoring playback,

I have Studio and automatic renewal. Today I got a message that my license is expired. Billing went through though. Went to support to log a ticket and saw a message that Avid has a new billing vendor and that has effectively locked out a ton of users.

Hey folks,

I was wondering if it's possible to script this in PT (see screenshot). I have no experience to date with PT SDK scripting.

Pro Tools or Dorico separates the notes and controller data, and I'm looking to automate something that will Cut>Paste>Merge MIDI and delete the track.

I’m a post audio mixer for student films currently looking to get into more of producing and composing music, I know most of the technical aspects of using protools but my partner wants me to make her music that sounds like https://open.spotify.com/track/6ggzIOQ1wbVWjpGOzJvoqF?si=aMtMe5GaRUaNtQUm1m-eYA

Dream pop/Bedroom Pop and I was wondering what plugins I can use for my midi

Thank you

If i select my scarlett for playback I can't use input for my microphone, and I can't use it for output to my headphones either.

Hi, I am using Pro Tools latest version for Mac - 24.10.2.205, and running latest system -Sequoia 15.3.2 on a Mac mini M4 I just installed 3 days ago. When trying to bounce mixes down to the Documents folder on the system drive I get the following error. "Can’t create bounce files because Mac mini m4 is not an audio playback volume…". This has never happened before in my more than 20 years of using Pro Tools on Mac. I can save others kinds of documents OR copy audio files AFTER the bounce to that folder — but not bounce from Pro Tools.  thanks for any help! Buddy

• MIDI: Komplete Kontrol A49 (released in 2019)
• OS: Windows 11 IoT Enterprise (22H2)
• ProTools: 12.5 (released in 2016)

I suppose such MIDI keyboard or OS is too modern for this old version of Pro Tools. Otherwise, anyone has any ideas/solutions?

I tried opening MIDI-OX (a tool to test MIDI devices), and it clearly can receive signal from the keyboard.

Update: It's a problem with that particular version (12.5) because an older version - 10.3 works fine with that MIDI keyboard.

Hey reddit pls help my workflow is getting destroyed.

I’m trying to route a bunch of drum tracks and this happened with the backing vocals of a mix I’m doing too, so I use Alt + Shift while changing the output of the tracks to the bus 7-8 and when I do so a message pops up saying couldn’t output because the tracks selected was inactive, even though I literally just made this stereo aux track and it’s not inactive. Then once I click of it literally assigns every tracks output to a random bus for no reason! It won’t even let me undo this so I’m trouble shooting and having to manually output each track back to stereo 1 and 2 out ?!

Am i tripping or am I experiencing some issue

Are there any tips/tricks to make pro tools UI/UX smoother/better on Windows? I'm doing the trial right now and while its been ok so far, the weird double windowing of the UI and being locked to a single monitor is a bit of a letdown. I'd really like to stick with Windows and not get a Mac, so any tips/advice is appreciated.

Lately I’ve been saving in my Dropbox folder so I can work and back up as I go. I tried doing some work last night and a couple times I tried saving and got a popup saying it couldn’t save because DB was backing up, which seems normal, except it kept creating these folders in the session folders with random lower and upper case letters. I get that it has to back up, but there were a few times where it really slowed me down because I couldn’t save, and then I had to delete all these random folders. Anyone else experience this?

Mac M2 Pro. ProTools version 2024.10.2

So I'm working on a short film, and we're finally in post-production. The editor gave me this AAF and moved the files directly from his hard drive to mine, but when I put my hard drive into my computer and opened the AAF as a new session, it couldn't recognize any of the audio files. The info of where they are in the timeline and what track they're on shows up, but every single clip is blank.

I tried making a new session and importing the session data, but the same thing happened.

I'm still pretty new to ProTools and its a bit of a skeleton team working together. I really hope it isn't some basic thing I've overlooked.

When I'm bouncing out, under "File Destination" it automatically selects "Directory" and auto populates the destination (Users/.../Hot Funky and Sweaty) which DOESN"T exist on my computer, and it creates it... Is there a way do designate some other folder that DOES exist? I know I can select either "Prompt For Location" or "Session Folder" but it would be more convenient for my work flow if I could choose a single location that everything bounced to and it would always populate that location. FWIW this happens across all sessions. Im on a 2019 Macbook Pro running Pro Tools Studio 2022.6.0 if that's helpful... Thanks in advance!

Am I correct that this can no longer be done? Recently upgraded to MTRX Studio and now need the extra features.

If this is correct, will there ever be an amnesty period? It’s not like the maintenance is significantly cheaper.

Normally Low latency monitoring is the option to turn off monitoring no? But it’s not working for me. I still hear the monitoring. :/