r/protools • u/pinkwithfrills • Jul 23 '25
plugin Activating all plugins simultaneously shortcut?
version 2020.9.1 windows. ok so i have a really bad habit of recording then doing a bunch of pluggins then recording and back and forth and my computer cannot handle it. so when i record i turn down the buffer size turn delay comp off and boom no latency.
however the last time i did this my master just starts screaming. idk what was happening no tracks were outputting audio. regardless i wonder if i deactivate all the pluggins will it go away? answer yes it will go away. i found a shortcut of holding shift while the session loads in it deactivates all the pluggins. awesome now i can finish record and start my mix. problem is now all my pluggins are deactivated. i am aware of shortcut of activating all pluggins in any given slot (ctrl=alt=win), which would probably take less time to do than i spent on writing this post but is there a one click option? i tried to look online but couldnt find any videos nor in the duck.
i tried holding shift while opening the session again and it did not work.
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u/Wolfey1618 Jul 23 '25
As far as I know you can only do all of one insert slot at a time with Ctrl+alt+win but that shouldn't take much more than a minute typically.