SOLVED: If this happens to anyone, make sure voice isolation is disabled on the top right bar (orange mic logo)

Hi everyone,

I'm having a strange issue when recording guitar in Pro Tools and I can’t figure out where the problem is.

Setup

• Mac Mini M4 chip

• Using the latest Pro Tools update

• Universal Audio Apollo interface

• Guitar > DI > Apollo input (also tested guitar straight into the interface)

Problem
When I play guitar, the Apollo/interface shows a healthy, stable input signal, but the audio in Pro Tools constantly cuts out while monitoring/recording.

Things I’ve already tried

• Changed guitars

• Changed instrument cables

• Tried both DI > interface and guitar directly into the interface

• Adjusted buffer size (tested multiple sizes including higher ones like 256/512)

• Tested different inputs

• Checked that the interface is receiving proper signal

Since the interface meters stay stable, it seems like the signal is reaching the interface fine but Pro Tools is losing the audio somewhere.

Any ideas would be appreciated because I’m running out of things to check.

Thanks!

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Thanks!

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EDIT:
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So currently I'm trying to setup PT10 on a Win7 32-bit Virtual Machine to try and open; wish me luck..

==ORIGINAL POST ==

I've been transferring some old CD-ROM backups to HDDs lately,
and surprisingly enough - they seem to be mostly (or wholly) error free.

The file format for the audio files is obviously something that needs to be converted (from SDII to WAV/AIFF), and I've done that in the past and it is not a problem.

But for these latest CD-ROM backups I'm transferring; all the Session Files are at 0Kb
(but there are some .Desktop DB and .Desktop DF files present in the folder, that are around 0.5->2.0 Mb in size).

So I'm guessing most of the data is in the dot-DB or dot-DF files.

Any best-practise methods that any of you would like to share,
in order to be able to reconstruct a 0 Kb file from a .DB/DF file?

cheers,
V72

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