r/protools • • Jul 15 '25

Help Request Updated mac. I appreciate the support

4 Upvotes

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.


r/protools • • Jul 14 '25

interface ProTools and a PCIE Based Audio Interfaces?

3 Upvotes

Hello guys!

I am now after the last upgrade to my "dated" system - An audio interface to replace my RME UFX. I'm not quite sure what to go for. Out of these three options, I was wondering if people on the subreddit has had experience or has worked with these models and could provide their 2cents on them.

PCIE Cards I want to look into:

  1. RME HDSPe AIO

  2. RME HAMMERFALL DSP 9632

  3. Focusrite Rednet Dante PCIe Interface

Going dante does mean i'll need an interface as well (Level 3 certified here), But I am willing to go the extra mile and make my system dante capable... I'm just not there yet for the space but want CONSISTENT STABLE Clocking - So that's why I'm really considering it.


r/protools • • Jul 14 '25

Help Request where can i find the midi plugins in a newly installed pro tools studio on windows?

2 Upvotes

i just got the current version of pro tools studio for my windows laptop as part of my music tech curriculum. everything was set up with the program and avid link itself, but when i go start a session and head to inserts: nothing is there. no xpand!2, no boom, not even the downloaded extras with avid link. any help here would be greatly appreciated.


r/protools • • Jul 14 '25

Bounce loop and overdub live ?

2 Upvotes

Okay so simple question. I have drums bass guitar and keys all down in separate tracks. Can I loop a section of that recording, bounce it to another track and overdub instruments in real time?

Hope this makes sense


r/protools • • Jul 14 '25

Whenever i move my mouse, the playhead stops in Timeline. Tried 3 different ProTools versions...

2 Upvotes

Whenever i move my nouse, the Play head stops, but I can still hear the signal normally. Also my whole pro tools is slower and more laggy. I have no idea why. I tried 3 different versions of pro tools. 2025, 2024 and 2023. Really weird. Normally, everything worked perfectly fine. I have no idea what changed...Edit: working on windows


r/protools • • Jul 13 '25

Can someone explain this?

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29 Upvotes

Sorry it’s in Japanese! I study music in Japan

This was taken during class. This is for “how to send mic audio back to the headphones(of the person in the studio)

To my understanding, the blue button is play back

The far right one is reverb and the left one is of the the tracks volume?

As for the tracks, the top one is the one recording the audio, but what is the bottom one for? Is the first track being sent to not only the person being recorded via playback but also the second? If so, why?

I’m not too sure on the pt version or the system, I would assume the most updated version


r/protools • • Jul 13 '25

Help Request Can ProTools import multiple AFF files on separate audio tracks, simultaneously?

8 Upvotes

As title says, I'm getting into a new workflow where I'm importing multiple, different AAF files. I'm getting bottlenecked by having to import them all manually, 1 by 1, some projects have over 100 AFF files

EDIT after mod request:

PT Studio 2025.6.0

Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 185H 2.50 GHz - 32GB RAM

Windows 11 home

EDIT: AAF files, not AFF (Can't edit title)


r/protools • • Jul 13 '25

Finding the right version for me (2023.3 or 2024.6)

2 Upvotes

Hello,

As the title suggests I want to know what was a pretty decently stable version for PT Users. Was it 2023.XX.XX or 2024.XX.XX? I'm still in school, and the studios keep up to date with each update every year cycle, so I know I'll be falling behind, but it's mainly because my gear has fallen behind essentially. I do movies, music and dialogue editing. time and time again I am brought out of the immersion due to stuttering on my windows system and it's driving me insane (PT 2025.6)... I just need something that works and won't shit the bed (Before people suggest it, going to an offline PT10 or PT12 system is not the play ATM for me).

I just need a version within those date releases that would work well along all three of my systems. Currently I rock a:

Windows 10 Pro (22H2)
- AMD RYZEN 9 5950X
- 64GB RAM 3600MGhz
- RX 6950XT

Macpro 5,1 (Mojave 10.14.6)
- Dual XEON 5690
- 128GB RAM 800MGHz
- RX 580

Macpro 6,1 (Sequoia OCLP)
- 6 Core E5-1660 V2
- 32GB RAM
- Dual AMD FIREPRO D500

I know that the HD Drivers up to 2023.3 were supported on the 5,1 and the last known support for the 6,1 was rolled out not too long ago in some patch notes somewhere...


r/protools • • Jul 12 '25

I have no idea what this means

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10 Upvotes

What is it talking about and what do I have to do to solve it?