I have been working on getting to control Q4 via Soundflow in Pro Tools and I plan to give the script/howto away when I have gotten it to where I want.

I have gotten pretty far, but have stumbled onto an odd limitation in Soundflow where it does not acknowledge swiping on the display above the knobs. I want to use that behaviour to switch between eq band.

I have made a little request for this on the Soundflow forum. I would love it if someone reading this would take the trip over there and giving my request a little thumbs up or something to create a little buzz, and maybe get the Soundflow team to add this to their app. :-)

https://forum.soundflow.org/-19329/swipe-functionality-for-the-stream-deck-plus#post-1

Ever since Avid Link was introduced, the Products page has been a mess. It doesn't seem there's any real thought or care into how these Products are organized. So much bloatware dumped into this downloader. There's even duplicates - "Xpand II" for example. All piled in right next to the software update that costs me $500/year. Makes my upgrade feel less valuable I guess. I could barely find the "Pro Tools Stem Separator" that they just released.

I am posting this to ask if this is the experience everywhere. or if newer Pro Tools users avoid this bloat.

I'm not using Avid Link frequently... so not the biggest deal. But I have this thought a few times a year. Signs of a legacy product where the only thing devs are doing is strapping things onto an existing code base..

Edit: I'm on the current version.

Hi yall, this is probably the silliest injury i've ever had, but i've developed trigger thumb and im 99% sure it's from using command + 234 to change tools and command + c v to copy paste things. Has anyone ever had this / any tips to still be able to use shortcuts without pulling my thumb tendons? 😭😭 And if you have dealt with any sort of these types of injuries, what helped to relieve the tension/pain?

Please someone help, I'm at my wits end.

I know I shouldn't have updated. I was dealing with another problem and I thought updating might help.

Anyway when I open a session with UAD DSP plug ins on the plugins load up fine on the pro tools startup screen but when it comes to actually loading in the tracks it just stops and permanently tries to load. When I create a new session ALL OTHER plug ins are fine but when I try to insert a UAD DSP plugin it does the perma load thing. At one pointpro tools actually crashed.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. I tried reverting to an earlier version but I couldn't give permissions to the drivers for the UAD Control panel (literally just didn't show. Not sure why)

I'm on Mac Venture13.6.4 and pro tools is like version 2021 or something.

My workflow is 90 out of the box. I don’t use a lot of plugins. I’m more curious if it will still perform well on my computer from 10 years ago. I do notice very long opening screen when I first open the app.

It works fine now.. any risks here?

Anything I’ve missed out on over latest versions?

I updated protools yesterday. I’m in 6/4 timing. It’s always worked until today. Not sure if it’s a bug in the new update or what. Slip more not working, grid mode not working, set my nudge levels, grid is on 64. Quantize is off, or on doesn’t matter. It’s driving me nuts. Never had this problem before today. Is there a fix?

I've been using Pro Tools 11 for years on my Windows 11 PC, and I've had basically no problems with it. But then suddenly, I started getting the pop-up "Pro Tools ran out of CPU power. Try deactivating or removing Native plug-ins (AAE -9173)" any time I try to play/record tracks or bounce them. I tried Googling and tried every solution I can find, but nothing works:

I tried every optimization and relevant troubleshooting tip that was in this link: https://kb.avid.com/pkb/articles/troubleshooting/Windows-11-Guide I've also tried things like changing the buffer size, turning on/off Dynamic Plug-in Processing and the Ignore Errors option, and opening my project with all the plugins frozen, nothing worked.

My PC has an Intel i9 CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, 32Gb of RAM, and all of my drivers are up to date. My sound interface is a Focusrite Solo gen 3.

It's not an actual plugin issue because I never installed extra ones, and disabling every single plugin I did have didn't help; deleting the Databases and Preferences folder did nothing, and I even did a full reinstall of Pro Tools, and nothing changed.

I don't know what else I can try. If anyone has any ideas, I'll gladly take some!

I need a new keyboard and don’t have too much space on my desk but I can’t even imagine getting a keyboard without the number pad and F row. Anyone else here use a small keyboard without all the shortcuts is the trade off worth it?

I'm on Windows 10 22H2 and I had an issue with the video codec of my latest version of PT (2026.11) that was perfectly functionnal until today. I'm mixing a short film with a video. As I was searching for a solution, I saw an available update on Avid Link and downloaded it without asking myself too much questions. As I went through the whole process, I noticed an error message that was telling me that the Avid Pro Tools.msi folder was missing. I then tried to open ProTools itself, not my project in particular and everything went smoothly, except for the video engine that wouldn't launch. The related error message was "Error launching video engine. There maybe a problem with the installation.". After a few research, I thought the video engine was not compatible with my version of Windows, but the rest of the interface and main functions were ?

I don't have the capacity to switch to Windows 11 but I'm not sure if I have to download PT 2026.11 once again. Maybe my initial codec problem will come back if I do. Also, I'm not sure what is going on with this .msi file and if it's important or not. I'm kind of desperate right now since I have to finish my mix in two weeks, I really really need help lmao

Please help... why are they not synced? For reference, the grid has been set to "Follow Bars|Beats Grid" already and it's still like that.

What are we even paying for? I am not impressed with Avids output.

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Anyone running latest Pro Tools Studio on mac mini m6 24gb? 32gb? Any broken plugins?

Do you think Pro Tools will offer any major discounts on annual subscriptions this year? They had some pretty big discounts around this time last year, but so far, it doesn’t seem like they’re doing the same thing this year.

I need to bounce a bunch of stems for a couple of albums.

How are people doing this in 2026? Anyone using AI to help code hotkeys for this? Using stream deck?

I'm on PT 2026 M6 Mac Mini with a stream deck.

Might be getting my wording a bit muddled. I'm old.

Thanks in advance.

So. I'm extracting the chords from a midi clip in an instrument track, they're just not exactly where I want them to be and there are some that aren't really chords.

Is there any way to delete and move the markers around? Thanks!

PT 2022.10, Mac OS X Mojave

I'm working off an AAF for a short film that I'm mixing. Sound recordist was good, but I was only given an AAF with short handles, and there are some scenes at a covered public bench where 2 people are talking. The rain is in the tracks, and my initial reaction was this has to be ADR completely. A lot of the rain is splatty so it can been seen and in the audio; are there any processes that can help? I intend to replace the rain entirely, but I have hundreds of tiny audio files that I can't batch process since the close up on each actor had different levels of rain / perspective

Is it ADR for this?

This morning i went to import a track from another session, and it repeatedly imported a previous version of the session/track. I had changed the VO in that session and saved it, but the track that was imported was the old audio. not only that, but in the import session data window, it shows the PTX file as last modified on the 18th (wrong), while the finder clearly says the 21st (correct). Doing a save session as to make a new ptx file resulted in the same issue, despite the modified date/time being correct.

if i open the session im trying to import data from, the audio is correct and current. i ended up having to render the audio and bringing it in manually.

just a weird one. i thought I was going crazy. a computer restart did not help.

macos 15.7.3

PT 2026.4.1

I am trying to relink some audio files from an AAF in my Pro Tools Studio session (2026.4.1). The AAF was made in DaVinci Resolve. The audio files from the AAF have different file names than the source audio. There is also no unique file name to match. I attempted to manually relink with little luck. I matched one candidate file, but it would only link one half of the stereo file and not the other. I am also dealing with 174 unlinked audio files, so that is not a realistic workflow for relinking. I also tried copying the source files into the audio files folder, saving, relaunching Pro Tools, and automatic relinking, but that didn't work. I copied the source files into the clip list but had no luck with restarting the session and trying to relink.

Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. If there is a solution on to fix this on DaVinci with those export settings for the AAF, that would be appreciated as well.

Hi everyone. At my wit's end a bit here. As the title suggests, when I create a New Project, the Timeline Selection is set to be in a four bar loop instead of starting the points at 0. I'm trying to teach students how to make new sessions and record, but it's annoying making them deselect the timeline each time

Things I've tried:

• Toggling Loop Playback and Loop Record, then saving the session before creating a new one

• Toggling Link Timeline and Edit Selection, then saving the session before creating a new one

• Setting Edit Selection End and Play Selection End to 1|1|000, then saving the session before creating a new one

• Diving into Preferences

• Checking Session Setup (cmd + num 2)

The only thing I haven't done is trash the Preferences because the app I have to do it is on a hard drive at home and this is a work computer.

I took a screenshot of what I'm trying to get rid of. Like I said, I just want it to not have a loop/selection when I make a new session.

I'm doing this on PT 2020.11.0 on a 1013 Mac Pro running MacOS Version 10.15.7

Thanks in advance!

Card on file expired. Lanched PT and got the "expiration warning". Apparently they added a buffer, but I was away. I am unable to add any new cards. Every time I enter one, it gives me error. Is there any other way?

I've been going around in circles with this for a couple of hours. Have tried Apple Pay.

Thanks.

Does any one have experience with how smooth it works to use the pots on the Stream Deck + with Fabfilter Q4 in PT assisted by Sound Flow (paid)? Can I make the pots immediately app to freq, gain and Q when the Q4 window opens?

(Newest Pro Tools on mac)

My computer just isn’t cut out for this software, I’ve been having major stability issues on Windows OS and just know it’s not gonna work long term. I’ve switched to Ableton and work is actually getting done now. I’m selling my perpetual license on reverb at this point to see if anyone wants to do the official avid transfer process.

Not a request for help but more of a discussion request. Has anyone had major issues with stability in Pro Tools Studio latest version / windows OS? It got to the point where I’d be deadlocked on projects, crashing every once in a while, and freezing a bunch. I guess technically speaking independent troubleshooting every other day was getting tiring.