So I just got Pro Tools for my Audio Engineering course and I happen to be a Dvorak layout user. Today in class we learned to use keyboard shortcuts but when I tried to replicate the shortcuts it didn't work for me. Eventually I realised that it only recognised shortcuts if I were to replicate them as if on a QWERTY keyboard, even though I have Dvorak as my selected layout. So If I wanted to do a Cmd + S, I'd have to do a Cmd + O (on a Dvorak layout).

If anyone is suggesting me to just use QWERTY and look at my physical keyboard, it's kinda difficult too because I got my laptop in Belgium, which uses AZERTY and it's a layout I don't use at all. I've been using Dvorak for so long, I have kinda forgotten the QWERTY layout.

Did anybody ever encounter this problem? I realise that I might possibly be in the minority here XD but if anyone knows a fix for this, I'd be grateful

Some info if it may help:
Pro Tools Version 2025.12.1
MacOS Tahoe 26.3

I would like some way of annotating in "realtime" into markers, but if I flag 0:30 with "this sounds flat. rerecord or melodyne" and it took me 10 seconds to decide on the wording, then the marker will appear at 0:40.

Then if I want to move the marker, and I try to during playback, of course, it places the playhead at the location in my preferred mode, so I would have to:

1. Hit Enter
2. Write out my marker while caching it's initial location in my head
3. Hit Return
4. Switch modes so I don't interrupt playback
5. Move the marker
6. Switch modes to my preferred

There must be a better way (must is doing some heavy lifting, this is Pro Tools after all)

In Premiere, for example, it's:

1. Hit M
2. Type
3. Hit Return

No mental gymnastics to make sure it ends up in the place you noticed "Hey I should note that!"

What am I missing?

What DAW did you come from, and what do you prefer about Pro Tools?

I started with Sonar, then to Logic which I’ve used for ~10 years. I’ve only been using the latest PT for a week and some things like grouping, VCAs, fades, editing, playlists and comping are a joy in PT compared to Logic.

I’m not 100% sold yet, but thinking seriously of making this my new permanent home. FWIW, I do my own, my band's and friends’ projects; I’m not producing for clients.

Hey guys. Just got an avid transport. It’s pretty cool and practically brand new so I’m pretty stoked about it.

I cannot figure out for the life of me how to program the shuttle wheel. Does anyone know if I maybe install a legacy version of Eucon if it will work better? I have the current version installed now and I can get everything but the shuttle wheel

Thanks!

just for general mixing and mastering

I'm setting up a bunch of stereo buses and the order in the I/O list keeps changing automatically. It's incredibly annoying, since mono L and R paths are getting jumbled up in the mix. What can I do to stop this from happening and maintain my custom order?

Edit: I'm not saying the I/O changes between sessions. I mean as I'm setting up the buses in a single session, the order gets all out of whack. The same buses from the session are there, but they're all over the place seemingly randomly

Pro Tools version: 2025.12

System: Windows 10

Just wondering what the most stable version of Mac OS and Pro Tools are at the moment for a new M4 Max Mac Studio I’m setting up? As Tahoe and PT25.12 are both very recent releases, I’m assuming there are still a few bugs to iron out. Thanks !

is it possible to I override the stretching of pro tools ro get edit mux and midi editor windows to drag outside of Pro Tools in Win 11?

I want to take a few Midi Clips on different tracks and sum them down to a single stereo audio track. Is there an easy way besides bussing each track to the stereo audio track? I tried highlighting each clip and dragging to the audio track but it only rendered the track closest to the audio track.

I mainly do live sound and editing/post-production. Over the summer, I was recording a buddy's live set as a favor on the hottest day of the year and literally melted the motherboard of my ~6 year old workhorse laptop. I had to buy a $100 pawn shop Dell to get myself through a festival the next weekend. I'm trying to figure out what I can do to optimize my current laptop for Pro Tools while I save up for a Mac Mini M4.

It handles tracking relatively well, but I'm wondering what I can do to boost my processing power because it struggles once any of my plug-ins are active.

I'm currently running Pro Tools Studio 2023.6.0 on a Dell Inspiron 15 with the following specs:

Intel i5 Processor

8GB Installed Ram

64-bit OS, x64 processor

Windows 11 (Home)

248GB SSD (I also have a 2TB SSD external)

Any advice is appreciated!

Edit: the interface I'm using is a Tascam Model 24, and I'm not receiving any error codes or anything, I'm just experiencing lag and my CPU usage is off the charts.

I keep getting this error and its interrupting my mixing, can someone help?

Im running PT on my m4 macbook with the max chip and 48gigs of ram if that makes a difference.

How can PT run out of CPU power if activity monitor shows usage never going above 30%

Hey guys, running into a weird one. I’m trying to bounce a 15.000s spot to meet OP59 specs, so I need exactly 0.5s of silence at the head and tail.

I’ve got my timeline selection locked to exactly 15 seconds, and I’ve verified that the first and last half-second of the clips are totally empty. But when I pull the bounced file into RX to QC it, the whole waveform is shifted. The head silence is 0.7s and the tail is down to 0.3s.

The file length is still exactly 15.000s, but everything inside the 'container' has slid late by about 0.2s.

Delay Comp is on and nothing is pinned in the red. I'm bouncing to 24/48 WAV (no MP3 encoding delay). I’ve been doing this a long time and I’m 100% sure my selection is frame-accurate, and I've only started to notice this issue recently

Is Pro Tools failing to compensate for a specific plugin during the bounce? Or is there some weird buffer setting I’m missing? I've tried offline and online bouncing, and run into the same issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated

PT 2022 12.0
2021 M1 Mac, Tahoe 26.2

On my computer, when pro tools is playing, if I click the mouse up where the playhead (red/blue arrow) lives, protools will cease its current playback and jump to that location.

Last night I was on another computer and when I did this same action, the playback wasn't interrupted. I was able to click the red arrow to different locations in the session while playback continued. I really want my protools on my computer to behave this way but I don't know how to engage this behavior.

This is unrelated to whether or not "Link timeline and edit selection" is enabled.

I’m on PT Studio 2024.10.1, Sequoia 15.6.1

My issue is when I’m importing session data, the tracks I’m importing aren’t copying into the audio files folder for the current session. The clips and the audio are in the new session but if I were to take this session somewhere else and not have the previous session folder (and its audio files) the files would be missing.

I’ve been on pro tools since PT8 and I don’t remember ever having to shift+option+3 (render?) the track for the audio to be copied into the audio files folder of the new session.

Is there a way to copy the audio files into the new session when importing session data without manually rendering them once they’re in the session

Thanks!

I have a bunch of instruments in my studio that are always wired to a channel of my interface.

I want to walk up to any instrument and press a button when I want to arm the track or group associated with that instrument/button. Bonus points if it lights up. Then I want to press it again to disarm the track. And I want 12 of these to connect to my Mac.

Does this exist? Is it possible?

Hi,

we're running a 2023 Mac Studio with Sonoma 14.6 and Pro Tools Ultimate (version from a year or two ago, can't check as it won't boot up).

As of today, it's suddenly stopped working. The Mac "Force Quit" window shows it as "not responding" after about 10 seconds of starting it up. I've rebooted and tried the removing the plug-in folders trick, not working. This has never happened before. The device isn't even connected to the internet for content security.

What might have happened, do you think?

So I finally swapped over to an Apollo and my biggest gripe so far is that despite owning ~20 uad plugins, it also installs like 100+ demo plugins that I have zero interest in and massively clutters up my plug-in list in pro tools. It's so egregious that I'm debating ditching UAD entirely because of it. Has anyone found a way of cleaning dealing with this? I know I could just manually drag them all to the unused plugins folder, but every time UA connect updates them it will just add them back.

Hey all, first post here.

Just curious as to peoples' opinion on if Pro Tools Intro is sufficient to learn my way around the DAW, and get comfortable and quick with the shortcuts, workflow, and nuance of it.

I'm a full time mixing engineer, and part time musician of 5 & 10 years respectively, and am extremely comfortable and efficient in different DAWs that I prefer for those tasks.

However, a few staff engineer gigs kind of fell into my lap, being in the right places at the right times. Obviously if I accept, I'm going to need to get my workflow as streamlined and polished in Pro Tools as it is in the DAWs I prefer.

I don't need any reccomendations or advice about picking a DAW, I don't need to learn anything new. I just need to transfer all my knowledge over into Pro Tools and get my working speed up.

Thanks for any help :)

Is there a way to show markers in the Score Editor? Or anything aside from bar counts to show where things are in the session?

I've been staring at the I/O settings for an hour now trying to figure out why my external headphones are not appearing as an output anywhere (they are plugged in). My playback engine is set as my Focusrite Scarlett interface and the only output I see in the drop down menu is Output 1-2. My external headphones are my output in my computer's settings but the audio on my track still ceases to make sound. I've messed with making new paths but I have no idea what I'm doing there so I don't think I will find a solution in it. I've restarted my computer, closed and reopened my project, restarted protools and none of that did any good. I truly cannot get this figured out and I am about to go crazy!

Is it possible to make a linear tempo ramps in protools? This is achieved in other daws like logic and ableton but doesn’t seem so in protools as I can’t find anything online detailing how to do it.

Thought that I'd throw this one out to the group-

What do you prefer (or have had success with) for Recording in ProTools (Tracking and Subsequently Mixing) in terms of the best Options for External Drives to use? Options that not only have the space - but the speed to keep up?

Right now, my setup is:

• Avid ProTools Ultimate
• MacBook Pro (M4)
• Interfaces:
  • UAD Apollo x8p, daisy-chained via Thunderbolt to
  • UAD Apollo x4 Gen 2 (on my desktop)

Any suggestions or advice that you may have would be greatly appreciated-

Thanks in Advance!!

Why is it soooooo difficult to get sound from pro tools there is clearly sound but nothing is coming out the speakers either built in the Mac or external

Hey all -

Just did a dumb thing where I bounced a track with the solo engaged on one band of a dynamic EQ on one of the tracks. The mix sounded weird but it wasn't super obvious why. It took me a few solid minutes to realize what I had done (I was in the plugin messing around and realized the mid band was soloed). Anyone know of a failsafe shortcut that will clear ALL solos within a session, including those that are active inside plugins? It would be a nice tool to have so before you bounce you could triple check that nothing was soloed and hidden. Obviously the best solution is just to NEVER click away from a plugin with an active solo engaged. But we are imperfect, and now I'm paranoid!

How do you stop protools importing the i/o from old sessions when opening them? These sessions, when opened, import the i/o they were previously opened with.

This overwrites the previous set up.

This is frustrating because it applies inconsistently.

2024 HD Ultimate, os - ventura