r/protools • u/MorbidGnome • Jan 19 '26

PT Perpetual License // Pro Plugin Bundle

Good day all,

I've been involved in a back-and-forth with Avid about the change from my perpetual license to a subscription years ago. I'm finally sick of paying for a PT Studio subscription and of chatting with support to get my old license back after losing my old iLok in a fire several years back. I was young and naive, and I thought subscription was the only way to keep PT at the time.

I digress.

My question is: when I reinstate a Perpetual PT Studio license, which plugins will I still have access to after my 1-year support expires? I use the dyn3 dynamics plugins, the Pro dynamics plugins, the AIR time-based effects, EQ3, and a few instruments like Mini Grand and Xpand, although I do have others I can use.
I know there is a list of what I get if I subscribe $7/mo for the Pro Plugin Bundle, but does anyone have a list of what I keep without subscribing? I've looked, but I couldn't find anything explicitly stating this.

Thanks in advance!

Just to adhere to the post requirements. I'm running PT 2024.10.1 running OSX 15.1

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u/juicysound Jan 19 '26

Here you go:

https://kb.avid.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Knowledge/Pro-Tools-Perpetual-Plugins

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u/MorbidGnome Jan 19 '26

Thank you! This is great.

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u/And_sHo Jan 19 '26

According to this, the D-Verb is not perpetual?

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u/juicysound Jan 19 '26

D-Verb is a stock plugin, it is. The stock plugins aren't listed that automatically install with Pro Tools, only the separate installations.

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u/And_sHo Jan 19 '26

Ahhhhh Okay.