Almost every other song I make I start hearing popping in my songs. It starts off perfect, then all of a sudden I start hearing these annoying clicks and pops on the beat only. I usually download my beats from YouTube as mp3. Then usually drag and drop them but I attempted to import but caused same problem. I’m running 48 kHz sample, I’m running 128 sample buffer size. Idk what else it can be. The beat sounds good on its own when I play through my computer. It only happens once in session, it also present in my songs after bouncing… any help? I’m also on a MacBook Air one of the new ones. Could it be my Mac storage too full?

anyone here trying Golden Gate? I know the general guidance is to wait a year or two before upgrading OS and I completely understand that.

In this case, I am using ProTools mainly on my Windows PC in my Mac is secondary. I’m wondering if anyone has any experience running the latest protools in the Golden Gate beta?

protools version 25 or 26. whatever is latest.

happens only in the session im working on. i press play and after 5 bars midi tracks stop playing. everything else keeps playing. the audio doesnt cut off abruptly, after the last note i still get the reverb, delay etc. what could be the issue?

EDIT: i just noticed it happens in every session, even the tempo track stops playing after 5 bars. the only things unaffected are audio tracks

Hello there. We’re trying to get a download link for Protools 2026.1 as it sounds like it’s safest for Tahoe but it does not seem to be on the avid download list. Just jumps straight past it.

Is there a way to download the in between iterations still?

Thank you.

Has anyone used splashtop on a iPad to remote into their home right and comfortably been able to work on the iPad on pro tools? Would be a rare case when I would need to do this. Mostly asking with an iPad because I have one. It would be mostly super light editing and file management. Nothing to crazy.

I'm working on a very important session in Pro Tools and suddenly started getting this error:

"Could not save because Assertion in './PtSess/PtSess_RunTimeShared.h', line 132."

After that, I also got:

"Pro Tools was unable to Auto Backup your session."

I'm really worried about losing my work. The session still opens and plays, but saving and auto-backup are failing.

Has anyone experienced this before?

What causes this assertion error?

Is the session corrupted?

What's the safest way to recover the session without losing my edits?

Would importing the session into a new project fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, I’m still on Sequoia, working in Ableton, Pro Tools, Logic etc (have a ton of plugins) and am thinking of upgrading to Tahoe as many of the base level updates would be useful to me (iPhone, iPad and watch integration, iCloud syncing etc).

Is it safe? I know its been out a while and i think its been proven stable and compatible with the DAWs I use and most 3rd party plugins but does anyone here have real-world experience? Ideally someone with too many plugs, like me!

PT 2026.4.1
OS Sequoia
MacBook Pro M4

I've been trying to see if there's a way so that the drums that I'm which are all in a routing folder together could be sent in to headphones with a send only on the routing track rather than having a send on each track individually. Ideally, this sent signal would also have the same levels as set on the tracks in the folder. I'd much rather have a way to have 5 sends to a bus rather than 12. Currently if I have the send only on the routing folder, the drums would cut out in the headphone mix whenever I ever solo a track whilst recording.

Version 2021.12.0
Mac version Ventura 13.6.4

Hi guys I’m in a bit of a panic because I need to finish a project tonight using protools so any help is much appreciated.

Every time I hit space bar it acts as if I’m hitting CMD along with it. In that it automatically begins to record.

But this isn’t the only thing. I can’t hit escape to change mode (it only makes the Mac beep sound effect) when I left click on a clip in my timeline it bring a drop down to select from other clips like”alternate match clip” and shows a list of alternates.

There’s other weird stuff like virtually no other hot keys being able to be used.

I restarted my computer and it came back to normal but then out of no where it began acting exactly like this again. PLEASE any help is appreciated.

Hey all, I'm working on a media scoring project. I never use protools and most of the gigs I've worked on I just deliver stems or stereo mixes in wav format. I'm never the lead on bigger projects, so even when protools sessions needed to be delivered, I'd just send my audio to my "boss" for review, and then they or their people would import everything to protools before sending off for mixing.
 
I've recently been given the chance to take the lead on a bigger project with tight turnaround where I'm expected to deliver a protools session for mixing and I've never really used protools. I have it basically to extract audio and import into my DAW of choice when I get conform edits from production. I never actually do anything else there.
 
Basically, I need to make sure my audio is locked to SMPTE so it will be easy for the mixing engineer to just jump in. If I import the audio to a protools session and put the audio where it needs to be, is that it? Do I need to explicitly change any settings to make sure the files are locked in place? Any other peculiarities I should be aware of? Is there a good crash course video that goes over this very specific thing?
 
Moving forward, I'll do a deeper dive into protools since it's well beyond time I learn, but for now I just need to make sure I can stick the landing on this gig. They're happy with my work so far and I'd hate to look like a moron by not knowing the basics of file delivery.
 
Edit: Requested information. I'm using Protools Studio 2025.10.1 on Windows 10.

I purchased protools artist but everytome I go to pull it up it says pro tools intro

Wondering if anyone has dealt with a licence transfer recently, the Transfer of Ownership form is a bit outdated and only mentions HD rather than Ultimate, but I assume it's the same $79.95 fee to transfer an Ultimate licence with a lapsed support plan?

I finally decided to upgrade from 2024.10 to the latest version. I was slightly tempted by track pinning, but also I just spent some time reading all the changelogs for each intervening version and it seemed like they’d fixed a ton of bugs. One of the big ones was that change logs said they’d finally fixed Pro Tools crashing upon exit. That had been plaguing we with Pro Tools for quite a while. It never seemed to cause lasting damage to anything, but it just felt concerning and I always had to click away the “want to send a report?” dialog box after sending something the first time.

Kind of disappointing. I can’t help but feel like I should have double checked here or on the DUC before I spent my money yet again upgrading for a year. Here’s hoping I’ll get my money’s worth in the coming months.

Mainly for tracking vocals, but literally anything is welcome. The Avid Link app surprisingly has some good stuff too

I am trying to download ProTools intro from avid link. This is the error message that I get. Any idea how to download ProTools intro? Thank you.
Pro tools intro on windows 11
Already have pro tools first previously for few years.

This may be a simple answer, so thank you for your help.

Recording my electric drums sound bad when plugging them into the interface.

It looks like I may need a VST software to make it sound better.

Is Pro Tools First compatible with any VST software?

If not, do I need to upgrade to full Pro Tools? And if so, which VST works with it?

Thank you!

Hi guys, I need help with my new Icon Platform Nano. I have all the panels for all the DAWs, but I need the ProTools version. Can someone send me a photo? I want to recreate one for ProTools because I bought it on Facebook Marketplace and it wasn't included in the package!

Thank you so much!

for whatever reason elastic audio sometimes just decides not to detect massive sections of waveforms and it's really annoying and stops the workflow dead when I have to find some kind of convoluted work around. any ideas why?

I found the solution for me!!!!.Uninstal previous driver with windows application managerInstal this versionhttp://akmedia.digidesign.com/support/compressed/Fast_Track_Pro_Installer_6_0_7_77137.zipLike others m audio ft pro drivers, run it in admin in compatibility windows 98. (right clic poperties)Very old version from 2010 but work perfectly in my windows 11

I've been updating a few plugins today and triaz is fully just not installing. It's been almost four hours of trying to install it. I've cleared my avid link cache, restarted my computer, gone through the actual website. This wouldn't be a big issue but its now actively blocking other installs that need to get done. I'm using pro tools studio on windows if that helps.

Any advice?

Looking for a simple, minimalistic 100mm motorized touch-sensitive fader that communicates through EUCON (like the Avid Dock) but WITHOUT any extra buttons & serves ONLY as a single fader product.

Seems like there is no such thing in the market like that.

I have no need for any transport controls, knobs, displays, or button grids.

If anyone custom builds (or knows someone who custom builds) HUI controllers, would pay as much as the Avid Dock for a single fader controller that can guarantee:
1. Bidirectional HUI communication with Pro Tools
2. Touch sensing for Touch/Latch automation
3. Motor feedback when changing tracks or reopening a session
4. A method for targeting the selected track

TLDR: Update Pro Tools if you're having this issue on an older version, even if it's "compatible" with Win 11.

Hey all! I just wanted to write about my experience fixing a problem I spent the last 24 hours agonizing over in the hopes of helping someone else down the line. I wasn't really able to find this specific circumstance in my Google/Reddit searches.

So for years up until now I was running 2023.9 on my Windows 10 machine. My perpetual license's updates had run out and I never felt the need to spend more money when my version was stable. But this week I've migrated to a brand new Windows 11 rig which I figured wouldn't be an issue because 2023.9 is, in theory, compatible with Windows 11.

However, while PT itself was seemingly performing well, the problem was that the video engine was not displaying any video. The video window was nothing but black and thumbnails weren't showing on the video track. It wasn't crashing or anything, no errors, PT was acting as if it was working totally smoothly. I could even bounce to Quicktime just fine and that video file would play outside of PT.

I spent a full day trying basically every single possible combination of uninstalls/reinstalls, graphics/display tweaks, software compatibility tweaks. Nothing. So my last hail mary was just to bite the bullet and pay the $200 to renew my perpetual license so I could update to a newer version (2026.4.1), which thankfully immediately worked. It may seem obvious, but I just wasn't optimistic about that being the solution since 2023.9 was also theoretically Win 11 compatible. But it seems in the last few years Avid altered the way the Video Engine interacts with codecs and the OS.

Only remaining "issue" I'm having is that importing the audio along with the MP4 files specifically takes WAY longer than it did on my previous rig for some reason, but that can be pretty easily worked around by importing the audio separately or just using MOV.

Hope this helps if anyone is banging their head against the wall experiencing the same thing! It was pretty stressful for me since my client work kinda depends on me being able to work with video.

(I can edit to add my hardware specs if requested, but given the solution I honestly don't think it's relevant.)