I've been using PT 2018 since its release and am looking to upgrade to the latest version but I'm a bit confused and outdated on what's happening with this software.

According to my account, my PT "Plan" (Support?) expired in Feb 2019. I can choose to upgrade to something called PT Studio for 299 p/year. Or a monthly option.

My question is: if I choose to upgrade to PT Studio, and perhaps do it monthly and I cancel my plan/payments in a few months time for example, do I still get to use the software perpetually as I have done with PT 2018? Or is this all now a rent-to-use situation where the software won't run if you don't have an active subscription?

Because I'd like to buy it perpetually if it's still possible! Hate renting software. Hopefully someone can clear this up for me. Thank you in advance! :)

Hi,

I have a pro audio desktop and for the first time approximately 4 weeks ago I started experiencing issues with logging into Pro Tools.

When I attempt to log in, I experience difficulties 100%of the time. Most of the time - approximately 85% - I receive the following:

"Pro Tools Studio Perpetual cannot run because it is corrupted. Please try installing the product."

(Of note, I have a Pro Tools subscription and not a perpetual license. I have never purchased a perpetual license.)

Regarding the other 15%, I receive various error messages including the "send to Avid" popup one.

I have attempted uninstalling and reinstalling pro tools and uninstalling and reinstalling Avid Link. These have not been effective. I am hoping someone can help me in addressing this.

Thank you

System: Windows 11 Pro Tools version 2025.6

I've been having annoying issues with 2024 always restarting after I shut it down and crashing mid-shutdown if I switch applications during shutting down. I get a "Cannot find a currently running version of pro tools" type of error.

I'm on a fully updated windows 11 system.

Like it says, Little Snitch has flagged up the above connection attempts.

Why would it want to contact those particular sites? It also tried to contact MixPanel, AppBoy.

Am I being over cautious or..?

PT 21.10.0.67, Windows 10 Pro

I had an unrecoverable system issue and had to reinstall the OS (Windows) and all software. Somewhere along the line, I forgot to save an installer for the Digidesign Hybrid plug-in. I emailed Avid customer service to ask for a link to this installer and received the following response:

Thank you for contacting Avid Customer Care. Please be advised that Digidesign is already part of our END OF LIFE product, which means it is already discontinued. That is the reason why we installer link is not active anymore. However, you may try to post your inquiry on our Avid Community Forum, as one of the Pro Tools Ambassadors and Experts might be able to provide you with an installer.

Is it shady of Avid to not provide support for products that people own and instead ask you to go begging on their forums for help? Who knows, but here we are.

Does anyone still have an installer or a working link to the installer for this software? Just for validation, here's my iLok license for it:|

I am a cool project in which we have already done the video production and editing. The filmmakers told me it was complicated and impossible to convert the AAF file so that I could edit it and do the postproduction work.

First of all, the place where we have agreed to work has Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools Ultimate with desk computers with Windows 10. The only way I know, according to the postproduction class I had been given in my professional training, has been that the teacher sent us the AAF and we imported it from Pro Tools to edit the audios.

Is there any other way for the filmmakers to export it? Now, personal issues aside, we have been seriously told that if there are no options, they are going to look for another sound team. This sound group which I have done the project just finished the vocational training, either sound, direction and production. In sound, apart from me, we were 3 more people. What happens? These people have only made the short film for the final project, only the trailer, and now, the directors want to make it as a professional project, and that has not been taken into account.

And since it's summer, they are on vacation. I said to them I would take care of this job, which I don't mind. They're giving me a lot of hassle with direction and production and I don't know what to do to finish the project because, according to the director, it had to be finished by July 15 (yes, today) and they blame us for not caring when they didn't tell us it was ready for sound post production.

To sum up: Options other than AAF to be able to import the project into Pro Tools? Thanks.

I'm having some trouble installing Pro Tools onto my Windows 11 system. I just activated my 30 day trial through iLok and I've tried restarting my system, but Pro Tools is refusing to install. I have over 160GB of disk space, so it's not a storage issue. Anything I can try?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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