My internet service went out tonight so I was not able to use protools. i do not have a physical I lock key. Is it beneficial to purchase a physical Ilock key and are there any downsides to using that?

Hi! I started an internship in sound design a month ago in a post production company in norway, so im new to pro tools. Unfortunately none of my colleagues know whether it is possible to achieve what im looking for.

Im trying to have my panning window always open and reacting to whichever track i have active at the moment. Because im writing a lot of panning automations

Im working on a feature animated film in dolby atmos with a 5.1 renderer for the little room i sit in.

Pro tools version: up to date Macos: also up to date

Ty in advance for your help!

Please help.

Currently using 2023 and decided to upgrade to the latest version, however the download fails every single time.

Tried it from Avid Link, and directly from My Products page on myavid.com. Same thing every time.

I’m assuming it’s an issue on their end, as the download barely gets above 1mb/s even tho I have 100Mbps Fiber internet.

Anyone else have this issue?

Running Mac OS 15 on M2 Studio

Anyone know what’s going on? I am using the tuco synth, have it in my inserts, and when I bring up the midi keyboard window to use said synth, no sound! Everything else is working properly sound wise, my tracks aren’t affected at all. Any help?

Having an issue I haven't seen before. Running version 2020.12. Instead of displaying the pre-roll as its usual bars and beats, it's only showing as one number. Also the flags are stuck within the selection I mean to record in instead of outside of it. I must have accidentally turned on an option somewhere but can anyone tell me how to change it back? Thanks

How do I get it back this back regular and remove that huge gap

Bit of a long shot; I got a idea for a pretty niche plugin that I’d at least try and explore. I got no experience with coding other than the occasional Soundflow script.

Is it possible to learn or am I looking at years of learning before I can attempt coding my own plugin?

Anyone else been down this path before and got any links to guides that might be helpful is of course greatly appreciated!

I've been having an issue with it playing fine then stopping for about a second then continuing the song and it does it about 6 times throughout the session. It's not the cpu or ram they are brand new. I've deleted the cache, reset my preferences, set the cache to 12g in playback engine, deleted unused clips, disabled plugins and nothing works. ldk what to do.

PT version: 2025.6 Windows 11

Im in the process of making a macos9 vintage audio workstation setup on a Power Mac G4 MDD with a DIGI 002... trouble is I cant find a copy of the install media anywhere.. would avid still sell me a copy ?

I am using Protools Artist 2025.6.0 on a Windows 10 machine and have a Lexicon LXP-15 hardware processor that I have connected as a hardware insert on an aux track. When I record a sample back on an audio track from the aux track with the mix on the unit at 0% to determine the round trip latency I end up with the return signal coming back in before the signal is played from the source track. I've attached a screenshot demonstrating this...

I am obviously doing something wrong or else i've just discovered time travel. Can anyone provide any guidance as to where I could be going wrong here?

Protools doesn't appear to allow negative delay compensation on the IO menu (comical that I even tried this.)

Thanks in advance,

Dave

I am using PT 12.4 on a Windows 11 PC with 64gbs of ram, quad core processor.

Now normally when I complete a song ai buss all the tracks to a mix buss > master track > audio track.

My issue at hand; I am trying to print my drum and snare buss and my percussion busses to audio tracks to lessen the CPU usage to the rest of the mix.

To no avail, the percussion instruments always sound off beat when recording. . I have tried freeze all the other tracks outside of what I'm printing and deactivating them.

Maybe it just sounds off beat when printing and it'll actually be on be. I didn't try that at the moment thru frustration . .

I did delete all the other tracks aside of what I was trying to print to test things out and got the same results

When I remove the armed audio tracks, I'm trying to print on, everything plays in its correct rhythm

While doing this CPU usage was around 25-39% Delay compensation is on and my buffer was 1024.

I hope this was enough info. . .thanks in advance !

I want to be able to start making music and working on projects with friends, only problem is that we’re not all in the same state.

Does protools have anything that would accommodate all of us to hop into the same session and work on songs remotely? If not, does anybody know of a program that would allow this if one exists

Protools keeps crashing whenever I try and edit/play my session. And I dont get an error code.

When I import the session it says that my files are corrupted/there's an error with them but when I open the files individually on VLC or independently in a blank session the files are fine and play.

so why does my session crash every time I try to do anything with it?

As you can see in the image below, in bottom right corner, those two things are greyd out, it doesn't metter what settings are in use, they always stay that way. I did a fresh reinstall of PT and a fresh reinstall of RX, but neither helped. Does anyone else have the same issue??

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Can someone help me, I have no idea how to get my mic set up to my Mac it’s literally rocket science I got the installer, I defaulted my setup I/O I’ve even tried the audio midi settings and nothings working for me to actually record I’ve registered my Volt 1, I restarted my Mac so many times and I just want to record music 😂 please can someone help me PLEASE HELP ME

Lewitt LCT PRO(BLACK) 240 MICROPHONE

I’ve been getting into PT moving from Ableton, and while i really like the customization, and the amount of in depth features, I’m just baffled by of the lack of common ones in the software. It feels really archaic. Among other things like not being able to undo the deletion of a track or insertion of a plugin, why can’t I undo a parameter change in a plugin? It seems pretty standard on every other DAW that I’ve used, and it’s a really handy feature to have by testing a parameter. Things like these make me wonder why protools is still an industry standard.

hey guys, if anyone is up for a side gig the company I work for is looking for many audio engineers. If any of you is interested comment below or DM me for more info!

do you guys have any advices on this? It's almost done, just didn't route the post recording yet

Hey hoping someone could help!

I’m got pro tools back in October 2024, currently on 24.10.2.205 for windows

I was under the impression that the perpetual license includes a year of free updates, after which you’re locked in to that version unless you renew / change license etc

I can’t find anywhere in the Avid site though where I can get any updates?

I’m a bit of a novice with this still, so a bit lost, but all I can find are renewal options, which look like updates to license within an additional cost.

Can anyone give me some guidance on where / how you get to the available updates while on perpetual whilst in the 1 year window?

Thanks!

Hi all, I currently have a Macbook Pro 2020 with i5 processor, with only 8GB RAM. I have ran pro tools on it before, however experienced a lot of crashing. I used to use a hard drive to run my sessions off but I am looking in to buying at SSD to help with processing power. Looking to invest in newest version of Pro Tools Studio. My main use for PT is to edit sound for film and video. Does anyone have advice weather this set up will work efficiently or if I will need to invest in a new macbook(i am reluctant to). Any advice is appreciated as I am not the best with technical stuff. Thanks

additionally does anyone have advice on good SSD that would work in my scenario

Hello, using PT12, MacOS Mojave, version 10.14.6. I have a problem with some plugins, in that the whole window is not showing. Attaching a picture from an EQ I bought. In some cases this has been remedied with plugging in a separate screen. In this case it doesn't work. I can't get to the top part of the plugin. I'd love to just make the plugin "smaller", so that I could see the whole thing. But if that wouldn't work I'd love to be able to scroll around in it.

Anyone have had the same problem and have a fix?

I know this might be sound 101 but Im learning by my own, so I´m working on a student shortfilm of one of my friends, and this is also the first time Im mixing on a 5.1 setup so Im wondering how should i use my sends for my reverbs

at first I thought I should just send it to a 5.0 aux but that way I dont have control for where i want the reverb to sound as it comes out of the 5 chs.

should I have to create 3 auxs a mono for the C channel, and two stereo for LR and LsRs?

and repeat that for my Dx,Bgs,Fol and SFX? givinig me a total of at least 12 buses just for my reverbs?

on the Stereo verbs I guess i have to use a phantom center instead of the C channel, right?

if so then do i send that to a 5.0 master bus to controll the 3 buses to just one fader? or can i send it to my master bus for my Dx, SFX, Bg, etc?

thanks

Whenever I hover over my pop down windows, they don’t appear fully. They’re always grayed out until I put my mouse arrow over them and then they pop up. What is the reason pro tools hd10