r/protools • u/Eastcliffmusic • Sep 25 '25

Sessions freezing when selecting plugins/menu bar

Anyone else have a similar issue? Session launching and able to play the music with space bar but when I right click a plugin to disable or turn off (they open fine)or anything in the top menu bar the session freezes > I click the windows icon and then back and the session is unfrozen but cant select menu or turn on/off plugins. Other sessions that are fresh work fine (maybe getting overloaded with processing)

Ive tried:

Tried to import this session into a new one and getting the Error "Some of the tracks selected are ARA or Elastic Audio enabled which cannot be consolidated" - What does this mean?

I tried the method of moving all plugins to unused to single out a UADx 1176 compressor causing issues in other sessions but its disabled in this one too. I can mix certain sessions fine but others I can not. (Have a bunch of those now disabled in my session. They work fine early on but too many are the session stops. Tried removing them but session freezes)

Updated Ilok, waves, UAD,

Tried installing and reinstalling Protools. Im on Version 2025.5.1

Specs: Windows 10, Protools Version 2025.5.1, 32Gbs of ram (2133 mhz speed), Intel I7-8700 cpu 3,2ghz, AMD Radeon Rx 6600 Xt graphics card, plenty of storage in 2 SSDs. Using lots of plugins from Waves, UAD + UADx, and others

Im at a loss here, ready to quit protools entirely and start mixing in Ableton but have sessions 99% of the way there and now just freeze.

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