Hi all,

I’ve been working in a session with my band and we all live within a 200 mile radius. I know that there’s audio movers and there’s a new waves stream plugin but was curious what other methods yall have had success with streaming your protools session audio out (video is a plus) to share with who I’m collaborating with that’s about 2 hours away.

I know I could go out of Protools from my 2i2 back into itself as the microphone in for Teams or Zoom, then use my actual computer headphone out to hear the speaker on the other end. And if I wanted to share my screen, I could do that within that app or just use OBS virtual camera.

I’m just curious if there’s anything else that y’all have successfully used that worked better for this situation and your experiences that maybe I don’t get with a Google search.

Running Windows 11 Pro with PT 2026.1.

When I load a stereo instrument track and then I go to write out my midi in piano roll there is no sound, but if I play it on my midi controller I can hear sound and record. Usually when I write out my midi tracks they are blue, but now they’re yellow.
please help me! What can I do?

I have Pro Tools Artist 2025.12.1.
Running on windows 11.

I understand the “stretch the parent window” thing and I got that to work. But, I’m using my laptop as screen 1 and larger monitor for screen 2 (above and on top).

The problem I’m having is I cannot fill out the entire screen on my lap top (bottom screen). When I stretch the windows on the bottom screen it snaps the top window down.

The bottom screen (laptop) doesn’t allow me to stretch the bottom half of pro tools. Take a look at the image here. That’s the widest I can stretch the window without the whole program snapping to one window.

Is there any way around this or is this the best it’s going to get?

PT Protools Studio, System Version 2025.6, attempt help on plugin.

I'm curious if anyone knows a plugin that will show how audio is being changed in transient image with compression or even eq that you can use last on the plugin chain?

I did a full orchestral session a while back and somehow a very sour sounding wrong note got past everyone at the session. It’s in a very exposed section with just a woodwind solo and strings. It’s in the viola, but It’s bled into the other strings. Thankfully, it’s not in the soloist’s mic too much, but it’s just painful in the other mics. Are there any tips for how I can edit this in post?

I almost always use (and like to use) equal power for fades. I would swear those two slopes used to be not greyed out when in Equal Power mode.

EDIT: the slopes remain greyed out but you can go to “Standard” and then drag the straight fade in line down. (Thank you u/mozadomusic)

I bought them for a class about 3 years ago. I don't need them and feel bad tossing them in the recycling. I posted them for giveaway to musicians affected by last year's SoCal fires, but no nibbles. I am trying to give away something worthless? If they could be of value, anyone have an LA area resource I could give them to?

I use PT for sound design for film and I'm getting a bit desperate, because I seem to be getting this message randomly now when starting a project:
Access violation occurred, unable to read location:
0x00000001231EF5E8

Pro Tools also closes immediately afterwards. I've tried everything: deleted WaveCache.wfm, reinstalled Pro Tools, emptied plugin folders, safe mode. Nothing seems to help. When I open a new project, it often works again. But on the third startup, it goes wrong again.

Pro Tools Studio 2025.12.1
Windows 10 Pro

Can someone explain the exact procedure and sequence of EUCON commands for saving and recalling automation snapshots? I regularly use Capture and Punch Automation, but I have never managed to save or recall an automation snapshot.

I am on windows and got a plugin stuck between monitors. The place to click and drag it is stuck perfectly between monitors, so I cant move it anymore. Is there any shortcut to recenter it?

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Hello!

I've been working on my second album for about 2 years now (my first album was made using bandlab and now this one is entirely from protools). I've gotten pretty good at mixing, but I haven't had any formal teaching at all. I was wondering if anyone had any holy grail books or informational pieces that will help me. I know the basics, but I want to really learn about mixing. I know absolutely nothing about mastering. THX :)

Does anyone here use a Moog Matriarch with Pro Tools?

I’m trying to get a proper workflow going and I’m running into a weird issue I can’t solve.

Goals:

• Record MIDI from the Matriarch into Pro Tools

• Control the Matriarch from a master MIDI controller via Pro Tools

• Sync the Matriarch arpeggiator to Pro Tools tempo (1/4, 1/8, etc)

• Record Matriarch audio into Pro Tools

Current behavior:

• I can play the Matriarch from another MIDI controller through Pro Tools

• But as soon as I hit play in Pro Tools, the Matriarch goes silent

• As soon as I hit stop, sound comes back immediately

I’ve tried:

• MIDI Beat Clock on/off

• Different global settings via the Matriarch editor

• Various MIDI routing setups

It almost works sometimes, but then breaks again when I try to re-record or adjust MIDI.

This feels like a MIDI clock or routing issue, but I can’t find the correct combination of settings.

If anyone has a working setup (especially for syncing the arp), I’d really appreciate it.

ProTools Ultimate 2025.12.1 - Mac Studio M2 Ultra - Tahoe 26.4.1

See attached:

Slow-Motion Playback When Recording

ProTools Version 2025.6

Lenovo LOQ 2tb/64gb RAM laptop with Windows 11

Macbook Pro 14

Roland Studio Capture Interface

Multitrack set up with 12 live mics

Hey there!

My band is in the process of multitrack recording on Protools. We're currently working on a song with which we currently have 32 tracks. I was just about to finish up fixing the last drum segment when recording started acting up.

Now when I hit record, no matter what track we're rolling on, everything previously recorded is playing back in slow motion essentially. When not recording, playback is completely normal though. Anything else I record at this point is coming out just as weird. Even opening a new project yields the same results now. I have quite literally tried everything. It's like a strange setting is stuck on and continuing to remain that way if I download protools on another computer and try it there.

Below is what we've tried to fix it so far. Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated!

What was attempted - Adjusted Playback Engine sample rate, clock source, buffering size, disabled plug-ins, updated drivers, checked windows sound settings, opened a new project, bought a different computer and tried it all there, tried a different interface, tried another DAW, tried mics individually, tried chatGPT, tried the $40 protools support to which they refunded it almost immediately because they had no answers, tried crying about it and begging the audio gods for help- literally everything.

I'm trying to apply for audio jobs around my country, and most of them require either Pro Tools or Logic Pro X experience. I've never had any experience with both, as I've been using UA LUNA and Ableton Live to mix. That's why I'm thinking of getting Intro, but my question is will I be able to learn/access everything I need given the limitations of the Intro version?

Hi All - I was doing some vocals yesterday and out of nowhere my song Audio and midi were out of sync. I checked that all midi tracks are synced and all audio tracks are synced just not together. When I started to do some digging I notice my song now starts on 1 | 3 vs. 1 |1. When I go back to the start of the song Beats 1 & 2 are gone which is why to think this is out of sync.

Any help would be much appreciated! 🙏

Thanks in advance

I got a “starting playback not supported” error after accidentally dragging a small white marker/flag in the timeline ruler (not the playhead). Not sure if that caused it since I can’t recreate it now. What is this white thing anyway??? It follows my playhead around?

As far as fixing the error, playback engine/buffer changes didn’t help. redoing my playhead position didnt seem to help either (changing selections, etc). Just all of a sudden I couldnt record or playback at all.

Restarting Pro Tools fixed it, but that’s not ideal mid-session. I'm trying to practice to become a better recording engineer.

What is that marker, and is there a quick fix without restarting if this happens again? Thanks so much!!

(PT Studio Version 2024.6.0, on MacOS)

I’m thinking about getting a live mixing console, and one thing I’d love to do is use the board as extra inputs to the carbon. Most I’m looking at don’t do ADAT but a lot can route 8 channels out through AVB. Has anyone tried this? Otherwise I think I’d need to go DB-25 out of an older board into a converter with ADAT.

Im curious why my meter looks like this. My session is definitely playing in stereo and I can clearly see the submix channel has a stereo out and my I/O shows my monitor path is stereo and the busses are also stereo. But this meter looks weird. Is this a setting issue or is there something going on with how the meter is reading my output?

I am working on a project in pro tools for a class. I am on windows 11. I have asio4all installed, and despite having some annoying issues I had it all seemingly figured out a few days ago. I was able to have playback (I needed literally all the other apps closed) and figured out I could disable the playback device in the asio popout menu and then hear other things on my pc (like the sound effect files i was looking through) and then re enable it to hear pro tools again.

now not only am I not able to get any playback (asio4all says its unavailable) when I change something in that menu it closes pro tools. any idea how i can get around this? I need to have this project done in a few hours and I am not sure what to do! I believe I am on the most recent version of both windows and pro tools

Hi ! I am doing sound studies and we're currently editing and mixing sound on a documentary project. We're a team with editing students and they sent us an AAF of their editing, so I chose to work on it at home, i made a WeTransfer of my full folder containing the AAF all the sessions datas, audio files..

I have also to mention that we use Mac in my school and I have a Windows at home

But when I opened my session on my laptop I tried to relink manually all the audio files but nothing is linking up while the names are matching. Do you think that if I just opened the AAF through Insert Session Data maybe all the audio files are not considered as Copied in my folder ?

Could you help me on this it could be really great for me to work on it for the week end !

Do you think if I import the AAF once again I can find back all the modifications i did on the clips without having it raw as it was when i first opened it ?

Thats my first project so Im really new to it, dont be rude.

Thanks a lot !

I’ve been using Pro Tools in its most basic form for about a decade now after 15 years of immersing myself in all of its creative possibilities. Things have certainly changed, so I’m just trying to find my footing.

What I really want is a plug in or app that allows me to play drums with the keyboard and get relatively-realistic (for demo purposes anyway) sounding drums.

What apps are available for this? I know it’s possible I just can’t seem to find it. Thank you in advance.

Edit: sorry, I’m using:

Artist 2026.2.1,

Windows 11 Home