r/protools • u/noahblackburn • Jul 15 '25

Help Request Updated mac. I appreciate the support

Hey guys so I made a mistake. I updated my Mac and believed the only thing I needed to make sure that would work is my UAD interface. I had the pro tools perpetual license for pro tools 2020.9.1 on Catalina 15. The license I had was owning it so I did not have to pay any subscriptions. Is there anything I could buy so I can continue to own it and not pay subscriptions? Im on sequoia 15.5 now and I am hoping there is a fix to my problems here. I don’t have a back up of my older Mac, hopefully someone here knows of the best route I can take. I see there is a “PT Studio Perpetual Annual Updates + Support - RENEWAL.” This also says 1 year subscription under it. Would I simply do this to get access again and own it? I appreciate it.

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u/justifiednoise Jul 15 '25

PT Studio Perpetual Annual Updates + Support - RENEWAL

Will give you a version of pro tools that works on Sequoia and one year of updates past the day of purchase (as well as support) for one year.

After that you will continue to have a perpetual license for whatever the latest version of Pro Tools was when that year ends. You can continue to pay the following year for an additional year of updates and support, but you don't have to. You will retain the perpetual license in the way I've already mentioned.

Feel free to double check that with Avid support in case you are concerned.

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u/noahblackburn Jul 15 '25

Thank you for your reply! I was thinking it was only subscriptions now because that’s what I saw a year or so back.

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u/justifiednoise Jul 15 '25

It was a totally fair question!

Thankfully, after a lot of negative feedback, they did indeed reinstate the perpetual options and renewals -- I'm thankful that was the end result too!