It must be something I'm doing but the pre roll flag keeps moving from the playhead when I'm editing - what's the shortcut for it? I must be accidentally hitting it. Is there any way to disable it? It's quite annoying.

Hi all, I hope you can help me with what is probably an amateur problem. I recently came into possession of some very nice speakers and a receiver to power them, however pro tools is not a fan of when I try to set this as my output in the playback engine and the error code AAE 9093 continuously comes up. I have an auxiliary cord going out of my computer that splits into stereo RCA cables to the receiver. I'm sure that this is the problem however I have had success running pro tools through aux cords before and don't understand why the problem occurs now.

I have been running into this error almost every time I open my pro tools even when I'm trying to use my PC's speakers, and won't work until I set the input device to the microphone for the computer. This however does not work for the aux cord to what I believe to be a sample rate issue.

This has only just begun happening and any advice would be greatly appreciated as this is becoming very annoying. Thanks!

Hi all! I've been using PT 11-12 since about 2014.

Long story short- have a new computer and Pro Tools 2024. I do primarily podcast editing, music production / mixing / mastering.

Instead of going though 10 years of "what's new in PT X.Y" - Maybe some of y'all can tell me some of your favorite features, quick keys, or shortcuts, mixing tips, etc, you guys like to use in latest roll outs of PT! It feels exactly the same, and I'm using it exactly the same- but know (and hope lol) something fun has been introduced lately.

Hey all. I'm an audiobook engineer, and I'm curious if there is any tool for turning a piece of audio into text within Pro Tools (or Ableton).

What I'm looking for is a way to 1. Take the audio file of the voice recording, have it turned to text, and 2. Then be able to compare that transcription with the actual book, and 3. Weed out the mistakes while having some sort of timestamp in pro tools to locate it.

My issue now is when I see a mistake in the text comparison I end up spending more time locating that specific sentence in Pro Tools (the audio files are usually 20-30 minutes long) so it's not feasible yet, but I believe if done right it could make things much faster.

Most current version of Pro Tools on windows 11 24h2. I've had multiple situations where I group tracks for editing goes normally and then shortly after clicking okay protools will be slightly unresponsive to commands. I can scroll the tracks up and down but clicking a menu or other interface interaction is non responsive and then CTD and I get a little window saying something like a currently running version of pro tools cannot be found.

There were very plugin-light tracking sessions. I usually only have some master bus plugins that I always use and instances of eq-1 to make basic eq changes.

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I’m coming from my base daw being logic and i tried ableton but the setup was honestly confusing for me to figure out. Is there advantages that pro tools has over ableton and is it a simple enough layout if im coming from logic?

I'm on Pro Tools Artist 12.1 and having a hard time figuring out how to create a VCA fader. When I go to create a new track, I'll open the drop down where you select what kind of track you want to create and VCA is not an option. What am I missing?

Hi Everyone,

I am a professional orchestral musician who likes to do a little home recording for fun. During Covid I produced a number of videos to keep myself busy and sort of taught myself the very basics of pro tools. I have a question and I ask that if you have a Solution, please describe it as if you were speaking to a three year-old. In other words do not assume that I am familiar with terminology, but I am very thorough at following instructions provided they are detailed (measure 3x, cut once).

My issue is that the volume on my bounced tracks is noticeably softer than what I’m getting straight from ProTools. To get around this, I have just been boosting gain by about 3dB, but this sometimes puts me on the verge of clipping, which is sort of stupid when you consider it is one track of trumpet that really does not get all that loud. It sounds fine in ProTools so I assume that my input levels are good.

This is what I am running:

ProTools Studio version 2024 10.1 Dell XPS 16 9640, x64 Intel Ultra 9 185H, 2500 MHz, 16 core 32 GB RAM UA Apollo Twin DAW, USB3 Royer R10

Hi I am coming from Pro tools 12 and I was a novice user at best. Having just got Pro tools 2x does anyone know how to have faders viewable in addition to the tracks on one screen without having to play tetris with the windows? Thanks!

Hello, I need to open a session I worked on this december, but for some reason the session immediately crashes displaying that "StereoTool" a metering plugin that I´ve used for the past year just crashed out of nowhere. this session is the "master_v4_FINALfinal" type and the past versions DO open without a problem but obviously are not the same soundwise.

It doesn´t let me bypass or nothing, just crashes ProTools automatically.

Thanks in advance :)

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Hey, I have looked back and noted some posts from two years ago, but has anyone had issues using licenses from the cloud? Using PT2024.10.2 on a MBP M4 MacOS 15.2 I’m trying to clear up my USB port usage. TIA

Highlighting the points i want to bounce does not work

I'm trying to figure out if I've clicked something in the preferences or if anyone else has noticed this anomalies:

1. I used to be able to cut/separate a section of a clip (let's say a line of a vocal) and then I could easily rate that clip for future comping. 95% of the time this still works, but the odd time I simply cannot rate a clip. Even when I select the selection and go to the Clip menu, I'll find "rating" greyed out.

2. Again, sporadic: Sometimes when I have "insertion follows playback" selected and "loop playback" in the transport selected I'll be letting the audio play along as normal . . . but I'll randomly select a section (while playback is occurring) to make an edit or something, but playback will then stop and it will start looping THAT new section. This behaviour never used to happen. Previously, the audio would just continue playing even if I selected a section "mid stream". Hope I'm explaining this well enough.

Anyone else?

Edited: I'm using Mac OS Big Sur 11.7.4

I created a session to clean up some audios I recorded with an ambisonics recorder and now that I want to bounce this file with the EQ, I don't seem to find a way to export it as a quad file instead of a stereo interleaved file.
How can I bounce this file back to a quad file?

ProTools version 2024.6.0
macOS Sonoma 14.6.1

so, i imported a bunch of wav files, and some of them had these extra lanes at the bottom of each track, and some didn't...it's the show/hide lane for automation, but there's no where obvious to get rid of the lane itself...I must have clicked on something somewhere....it's not a huge problem, but those little lanes on multiple tracks eat up a lot of real estate on my monitor...

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So I just downloaded pro tools after I purchased the studio license…

But it won’t start properly…

It was scanning all my plugins and it looks like its going to start but than it just “goes off” with no error code or something like that.

I dont know what to do I reinstalled everything 2 times now but nothing helps.

It’s the latest version 24.10.2

If someone can help me please 🙏

Hello!

I work at a school and lately we’ve been having some weird issues with pro tools on one of the computers. If I run pro tools on my admin account it works just fine, but if one of the students or anyone else without an admin login launches pro tools, it crashes on launch.

I’ve tried moving the plugins to the unused folder, changing permissions and even reinstalling pro tools but nothing seems to work.

While checking the windows event viewer I got the following log.

Faulting application name: ProTools.exe, version: 22.7.0.105, time stamp: 0x62deecc1 Faulting module name: ARADX.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x62decb2e Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x0000000000045bf6 Faulting process id: 0x0x747C Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DB7172D120587C Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Avid\Pro Tools\ProTools.exe Faulting module path: c:\Program Files\Avid\Pro Tools\ARADX.dll Report Id: 03119bbf-7140-4751-9af2-bf429f1851b0 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:

I’ve also tried replacing the ARADX.dll file but that didn’t work either.

Would anyone have an idea as to what is going on and what else I can do?

Contacted support but haven't had a fix yet. I’m running pro tools 2022.4 on a windows 11 PC.

Thanks!

This thing is doing my head in and I can't find anything anywhere about it.
Constantly flashing on/off and causing Pro Tools to have a complete meltdown.
It's doing it with every other application closed and phone with bluetooth/airplane mode (continuity camera mic whatever situation apparently can cause it).

Need a fix asap - over the last week I've probably lost about 6 hours of time troubleshooting / trying to find a solution / raging over this.

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I right click the clip to utilize ARA and all the plugins that have ARA are greyed out (Melodyne, RX, Vocalign). I am running Pro Tools Studio version 2024.6.0 with Melodyne 5 Assistant on a 2020 MacBook Pro M1.

So I just got pro tools to record music.(upgrading from fl) for some reason my asio4all isn’t letting me hear audio and I can’t configure it from the setup window. Ik it’s not an error from my mic because when I used fl asio it worked. Is there anyway to get my asio working because fl asio has a max buffer size of 256(which is too slow for me) if not can you recommend me an alternative without buying an audio interface.

Ps I use 2018 12.5.0 build, Blue yeti usb mic Intel i5(idk if that’ll help) Ram 8gb

Hey everyone.

I always hit the Y key (Snap Start to TC) on accident as I'm quickly editing and it snap the region to session start. I never need this function, and I do it on accident a few times a day when I'm trying to hit the T key when zooming in/out on clips.

Anyway to disable just this one specific short cut?

Thanks!

Whenever I have my Waves plugins open, Pro Tools starts to slow down significantly. My meters and frequency analyzer look choppy and slow and editing becomes too difficult to continue without closing the plugins. I sometimes need them up while I'm editing so its becoming very difficult. I haven't noticed this behavior with any other plugins. Has anyone experienced this and found a fix?

Macbook Pro M2 Max 32GB RAM.

Ventura 13.7.2

Pro Tools 2024.10.0

Waves V15 (15.0.70.71)

I’m on a Mac mini and this noise happens every few minutes while recording. Haven’t tried anything to fix it because I have no idea what to do. I have a video of it but it won’t let me post it

Hi,

I'm running PT 12 on my Windows machine and it freezes randomly for a few seconds when the PC is connected to the internet. I tried to block it though the firewall but this didn't helped.

Any ideas how to fix this?

How do I export audio files in ProTools according to marker so that each marker will be a separate track?

Protools version 2024.10.1

Either laptops or desk top. I'm not really sold either way, just looking to upgrade from a laptop that really isn't ment for production.

*update!: everyone is saying mac, I want a desktop so, Mac Studio Max or Mac Mini pro? How many GB, How much GPU, what is the best specs out of the 2. I can probably get away with 3 grand or so.