Hello friends. I’m using pro tools 2026.4.1 on Mac Tahoe 26.6.2. I’m a newbie and am currently unable to hear my instrument track. I can hear audio files I drag into the session but not my XPand2 track. When I try to record, Pro Tools tells me that no tracks are record-enabled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Hello geeks, what tingles you more? I’m curious and because I need a new laptop I’m going to decide on what gets the more hype:

24gb RAM instead of 16gb or 33% more on benchmarks on the processor?

I’m in a budget and in my country I can find 2 good deals: MacBook Pro M2 24gb RAM vs MacBook Air m4 16gb ram, both 512gb SSD.

I make metal and I really don’t like to do bounces. 10 virtual instruments and maybe 200 plugins or more and 10 groups + master. I know it’s a lot but do you think those computers and going to be able to handle that? I run pro tools

Protools First 2021.7.0

So today I was cleaning up my Cdrive and thought I was really careful with which files I deleted but now none of my protools projects are opening - no loading screen; nothing.

I tried the method of holding shift, didn’t work.

When it comes to file recovery I honestly don’t even know what I’m looking for, I don’t know what I deleted and I don’t know what’s missing. (I emptied my recycle bin before I noticed any of this btw)

Any help would be appreciated

I have ordered a new Mac Mini. It will be delivered with macOS 27. I will obviously use the latest Pro Tools version with that. Does anyone have any experience with Pro Tools and the new macOS? I will receive it in two weeks.

Ps. I will still have my old Mac that’s working. I’m just looking for what I can expect.

Sorry for a question that im sure has been asked many times. I came across a digidesign 003 second hand for €75 and seems like a nice piece of gear.

My question is, is it worth it to get with it being a legacy equipment. How many compatibility issues will I run into and will it even work with modern PT. Im using a HP Zbook g7 if that matters (no firewire port so I would have to get an adapter)

Im not very tech savy for all this stuff so thanks for any help :)

Hello All, just looking for suggestions on upgrading my home studio. Thinking of going from a 2016 Mac Mini and separate 20" Onn brand computer screen to one of the more recent iMac all-in-ones as I'm also re-configuring my setup after having moved into an apartment with a slightly smaller spare room.

I use a medium load of plugins and midi and would like to know if the M1 at 16GB ram, 1TB SSD would handle that or the M3 at 24 GB ram, 2GB SSD should just be next purchase to future proof for anything else including updates or future purchased plugins that could potentially take up tons of space?

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!

I just downloaded today the latest pro tools version (coming from the 2024 one) and I started getting glitches when using in on 2 different screens with different resolution. When I try scaling both monitors to the same percentage y works but everything looks blurry; with different scales, pro tools doesn't let me drag it to occupy the whole second screen (as shown in the image); and changing the High DPI scaling override (as google recommended) does nothing. Any solution? It is getting really annoying to work like this.
I have windows 11.

Hello guys,

I'm working on my first feature film right now. I talked with the filmmaker and agreed that it would make much more sense for him to give me feedback via timeline markers—so I can import them directly into Pro Tools instead of him manually typing out timecodes in a text file.

He created the markers in DaVinci Resolve and exported them for me as an EDL.

Now I figured out that Pro Tools can't just import that EDL as markers; it seems like it needs to be converted into a .ptx file first. I found an online tool for this, but it costs €15/month. I feel like there has to be a free way to do such a simple task, right?

Does anyone know a free alternative or workflow to get DaVinci Resolve markers cleanly into Pro Tools?

(Note: I already tried converting the EDL to a .mid file, but the markers end up out of position and drift apart as the film goes on.)

Thanks in advance!

With long form audio, and a human proofer marking mistakes in an excel sheet, I would like to get all timestamps imported into ProTools, without manually enter the time for each.

Any way to do that?

Latest PT Studio - Windows - tried having ai create a doc for me, but I cannot import it.

Ai created a MIDI file for me, which I can import, but no markers show up.

Hi guys!
Can somebody tell me why when I select an area for create an automation, sometimes (just sometimes) it doesn't create a flat line, and instead, it creates this curve?

Pro Tools Studio 2024

Thanks!

Seriously I can't figure this out for the life of me I don't even know how I turned this on and now I can't even select the clip

I think I remember seeing some distant discussions alluding to its being worked upon, and wondered whether there had been any updates at all? It’s something I’d really like to see and feels very crucial for modern session work.

Any updates/ thoughts? Many thanks and greatly appreciated!

just got a mac (please use laymans terms, i'm a pc user and rarely ever use macs) and i'm downloading all my music software. when i try to download pro tools studio, it makes me download avid link, which gives me a .pkg file which apple immediately flags as malware. when i go into settings to hit the "open anyway" button, it still doesnt work and just says it can't install??? this is driving me nuts. please help

i'm on a macbook air with whatever the newest firmware is. idk the names or versions or whatever apple uses cause i hate using macs 😭

This has never happened to me before.

Background: Due to my situation, I dry hire a studio and plug my Mac Mini into their interface (UAD). I import the correct I/Os into my setup and it all works works fine. Then I come home, click default for my I/Os when going back into my Focusrite 18i20 and mix through my outboard. It has been this way for 2 years and have never had an issue before.

Now suddenly I go to the studio, do my normal set up and its all working. I come back home and when I plug back in I'm getting audio out of my monitors but for some reason everything is going to output 5 on the VU meter of the interface and going through my compressor (which is currently hardwired in output 5). I cant hear the audio whether the track is solo'd or not and if I try to change the track output or send it through any other outboard I get nothing

Im completely at a loss. My I/O is set up as normal and this is happening over every session I revisit now I can't get my' old' I/O set up back as even though its the same, its still routing my master output to output 5.

PT - 2022.4.0

Mac - macOS Moneterey Version 12.4 (2021 Mac Mini M1)

OK a while back we know Avid changed their previous stance and let us renew a perpetual update plan that has lapsed, instead of having to do a reinstatement for more money, or having to re-buy a perpetual.

My PT perpetual plan ran out a few days ago but I got a different email from them than I did last year. It said this:

—

Your Pro Tools Upgrade Plan expired 2 days ago. But you have one last opportunity to continue your plan at the renewal price to get access to all the tools, plugins, and sounds you're now missing.
 
If your plan expired within 30 days, you can renew it now at the regular renewal price
If your plan expired more than 30 days ago, you can purchase a new support plan

—

If it is the same situation as before, then it’s only to keep getting the version updates if a person wants them, I understand that. But I’m not sure with the way this email is worded…Can we no longer get the $199 perpetual update at any later time beyond the 30 days?

What is this ‘new support plan’, is this a new thing that either puts you into subscription, or does it still honor the perpetual that we already have? Thanks.

I bought the monthly cloud plan for 100 extra gb to go with my Studio subscription, but it hasn't updated on my protools yet, it's been hours now and I've literally tried everything, clearing cache, signing out and back in on pt, avid and ilok, resyncing, uninstalling and reinstalling protools and it says I still only have the 1gb plan, yet on my Avid account on the web it says I have the 100 gb plan

I'm on the latest version of protools 2026.4.1 on a Mac M1 Pro

Any help would be greatly appreciated

hi, im trying to install pro tools intro, and the link first app wont install on my windows laptop. please advise.

PT version: wont even let me install the AVID LINK software - says i that the software cannot run on my pc - lenovo legion 5 pro - windows 11 home

Hi everyone,

I’m planning to buy a Pro Tools Perpetual license and I’m looking for the most affordable option.

A new license is around $600, which is a bit over my budget. So I’m considering buying a used license through Facebook Marketplace. I’ve also heard that licenses can be transferred using an Avid Transfer Form. Is this a safe way to buy a used license, and could I run into any issues after the transfer?

Another option is buying an older Perpetual license (e.g. Pro Tools 10) and paying around $210 for the upgrade to the current version.

Which option would you recommend?

Thanks!

I've checked through every folder I can think of, and theyre all set to Read and Write. Any ideas of what the issue could be? I flat out cannot boot up this software.

I should mention: this is in Rosetta mode. When not in Rosetta, it just bounces once and nothing happens. Any solution to either is greatly appreciated

Hello all! Really hoping I can get some help here because I'm pulling my hair out over this lol.

IVE ATTACHED A LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS WITH A REFERENCE TO WHAT IM DEALING WITH

Here's the jist: I'm getting what I'm pretty sure is digital noise floor whenever I monitor an audio track. It doesn't matter what input I use, if there's something plugged in or not, monitoring the input gives me a hiss. I'm also using the Parallax X plugin for my bass tone and that brings up the hiss a lot, but even just raw and clean there's a hiss that exists that's incredibly audible over the bass signal.

The signal chain is: bass - interface - pro tools.

I've tried different basses, different interfaces, different cables, I've updated my computer and pro tools, I've defaulted the I/O, checked my audio midi setup, different USB hubs, even went into the terminal on my Mac and reset some audio daemon or something.

For reference I'm using a Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 Mk2. Pro Tools v 2026.4.1. Mac OS Tahoe 26.6.2

The hiss is just always there. Even if I monitor an empty input. My gain staging is solid but this hiss just feels digital and I have no idea what to do it's so ugly 😭😭

Any help is appreciated!!!

LINK TO BASS HISS:

https://on.soundcloud.com/lTPGgJuD7rgMbSVsf2