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Strange transport behaviour and CPU overloadinf

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HD 3 PCIe, Mac Pro 3.1, 16gb ram, PT10 HD

My system has developed some strange issues all of a sudden. It's almost as if it's become affected by a virus (is this possible)? Firstly, the transport buttons are behaving strangely, where usually hitting the 'forward' or 'back' button once would increment the play position by one bar, it will do this for a few bars normally then jump to some random point (for example 200 bars into the timeline, way beyond the end of the audio). Then next click and it will jump to something like bar 360 (for example). The same happens whatever project I open and it's different positions each time.

In addition, the CPU keeps maxing out (playback stops, or stutters then stops followed by an error message saying CPU overload). This happens on the simplest project with a handful of tracks and plugins to large projects with several tracks and plugins. The problems are really steifeling my workflow and I'm baffled as to what's causing this.

There are two things I've done recently that I can think of which are relevant and potentially causing the problem, the first is that I upgraded from HD2 to HD3. The first two cards were bought together as an HD2 system whereby the 3rd that I've added is a used card from EBay. I noticed it is an earlier revision to my HD2 cards. I believe from memory the first 2 cards are revision 'J' and the 3rs card I've fitted is revision 'D'.

The other thing is I imported a MIDI file downloaded from the internet into a project (something I'd never done before) - just wondering if it could have been infected somehow? I don't have any antivirus software on my PT system.

has anyone experienced something similar or can she some light?

Setting up channel 24 assistance

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Hi All.

I currently have ProTools LE 7, and have been using it with an M-Box 2 for some time with great success.

I would like to upgrade to using a Channel 24 desk, which I am experienced in using but never set one up from scratch.

I need to make sure I have everything I need to get this working.

Please could someone assist with the equipment needed.

I have
-A mac and a PC that can both run the MBOX and protools no trouble.
-2 screens
-Protools LE 7
-Channel 24 desk
- 192 I/O Interface

Currently - desk connected to PC via ethernet cable
Desk connected to 192 I/O via 3 no. d-sub 25 connectors.

The software will no acknowledge and run the desk.

What am i missing as part of the unit?

Many thanks in advance for anyones help!

Profile, two snake cards and MADI/protools interface.

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If I have two snake cards and Madi + Protools cards.
If MADI is in the second slot, will that only be available for channels 49-96 ??

If I am using only channels 1-48, I want to be able to both record to protools and also send a MADI stream to for example OB trucks.

Thanks!

Video Engine enable on PC

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Long time PT user on Mac, this is the first time I've installed it on a PC. PT launches, but I can't get the video engine to enable. The progress bar runs for 1-2 min, then results in an error and can't enable. Opening a session, audio plays fine.

PT HD 12.7.1
*No* PT audio card installed yet

HP Z230 Tower
Windows 10 (whatever the latest build as of yesterday)
Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz quad core
8 GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 1070

I installed the codecs that come with the PT installer. Plus Quicktime 7, as it requested. I also have installed VLC, Bank and Smacker, and the video codecs required by Dolby for Atmos VR playback (the main purpose of the PC)

Any ideas?

HDX, Omni, PT12.6.1 - No Audio and intermittent fixes

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Hoping someone else might have had a similar experience in order to figure out what's going on here:

Setup: HDX, Omni, PT12.6.1, OSX 10.11.5, Late 2013 Mac Pro Trashcan 3.7G Quad Core Intel Xeon E5 with 24Gb RAM, Sonnet External PCI-e Chassis.

I'm successfully sharing sessions with my stage rig (also running 12.6.1) and my assistant's offline (again, 12.6.1) rig. Intermittently, I'll open up a session that's just been playing fine in the other rooms and I'll have no audio output from the omni and no metering (either on the omni itself or on the output meter path in PT edit window).

Fixes ARE possible but the predictability of any given one working is becoming...well...less predictable! Fixes so far:

1) Total Pref Trash and restore from a known working set
2) Setting Inputs and Outputs to Default in the I/O setup
3) Total System reboot
4) Importing all data into a fresh blank session

After one or more of those processes, Audio will usually return without any other mod to the session.

Any session that exhibits this behaviour will play back just fine if transferred on to any of the other rigs. Also, I remember one instance of this happening on the same machine when it was running PT 12.4 around 2 months ago. I updated to 12.6.1 hoping it would be gone.

Thanks in advance for any ideas anyone my have!

Tony

Draw MIDI Blocks?

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Upgraded to 12.7 recently and have a small challenge.
Seems like I used to be able to just draw (w/Pencil Tool) a block onto a MIDI tack in the Edit window. Now with 12.7, if I click on a MIDI track in the edit window with the Pencil Tool, it automatically changes to "Note" in the view and the track goes to piano roll.
Am I missing a Preference or am I just imagining something that never really happened?? :-)
Not a show stopper, but I liked to just draw empty blocks as place keepers and or to just sketch a quick 4 bar and then go in and write within it in the MIDI editor.

Thanks!!

Metaplugin issues

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Hi All, I recently bought some VST plugins along with MetaPlugin, which allows me to use VST in PT.

All worked wonderfully for about a week, and then... PT crashed and would not open any session with MetaPlugin. It would get to the track before the Metaplugin and then just quit. I tried trashing preferences and finally resorted to dragging the MetaPlugin out of the following folders: AAX, VST and Components. Now ProTools opens again, and I can see the midi that i recorded using the Metaplugin. So, I didn't lose what I recorded, but it would be great to get the Metaplugin to work again, so I can finish my song. Any ideas?

Thanks much!

Protools HD Native 12.4.0
Mac Pro Mid 2010
OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan)

Idea for track categories

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Hi guys,

what about that idea:

Let's have Track-Categories that are user-configurable. So you can make presets for different track-groups, eg. DX/ FOL/ FX/ BG/ MX...
These should include inserts, sends, output routing and track color.

A great benefit would be, when those groups could be selected as you create fader-layouts in eucon. So you could setup a Layout with masters and DX-tracks (group), or masters and musiktracks (group) and if you create new tracks or delete tracks, the right tracks are automatically added or deleted in the eucon layout.

What do you think?


Cheers
Maik

Protools no longer loads

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I use proTools 10.3.1. with my MacPro 8 core, running OS 10.9.5.
Life was beautiful, until I noticed that my oxygen88, was not triggering midi info on some keys. This problem stopped suddenly, but started again, so I rebooted my system, and now protools will not load.
A message window displays this:

Could not create a new document because Assertion in "/Volumes/Development/135986/AlturaPorts/DFW/MacBuild/../Views/UMenu.MacOS.mm", line 1351.

does anyone know what the problem is?

Compatible Keyboard Controller

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Hi I am looking for a good compatible keyboard controller for PT 12.

I had an old keystation that died.

Out of the loop on what is good.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

HUI communication Mac

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I am somewhat new to ProTools, and brand new to using Boom. I am trying to get the sound from Boom into the recording tracks. However, ProTools keeps telling me that it cannot communicate with the HUI. The MIDI keyboards are working just fine in other software. ProTools seems to recognize them and list them by name in the menus. Thanks in advance for your help!

ProTools 12.6
MacBook 10.12.3 Sierra

Can you still buy 10 HD?

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Hi,

Is PT 10 HD still available for purchase? I used to see bundles of 10/11/12 but don't any more. Thanks!

ProTools 10.3.1 Suddenly stopped loading

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I use proTools 10.3.1. with my MacPro 8 core, running OS 10.9.5.
My interface is The Apollo Quad2-Silver. I was about to get back to a track for a client.
Life was beautiful, until I noticed that my oxygen88, was not triggering midi info on some keys. This problem stopped suddenly, but started again, so I rebooted my system, and now protools will not load.
A message window displays this:
Could not create a new document because Assertion in "/Volumes/Development/135986/AlturaPorts/DFW/MacBuild/../Views/UMenu.MacOS.mm", line 1351.
I tried opening the session directly from the file and this message came up:
"The current playback engine does not support a sample rate of 48 kHz."
does anyone know what the problem is?

PT12 and Reason 8 Error 20038: Insufficient Resources

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I am trying to get my PR 12.4 (Upgrade purchased but not installed yet) and Can't get Reason 8 to work. I am running a PC with Win 7. It was working before I upgraded Reason to 8. Any suggestions?

Mackie Universal Control and track name trouble in Pro Tools 12

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Anyone successfully using Mackie Control Universal with Pro Tools 12?

I use my Alphatrack -also in HUI mode- and it works perfectly fine. Everytime I switch tracks, it consistently displays the correct track name (abbreviation) on the blue LCD screen, but with the Mackie Control Universal it's never the case, it works in banks of 8 tracks as expected in HUI mode, but always about half of them displays some weird text instead of track name abbreviation, sometimes the word "Auto", sometimes random characters, sometimes it appears blank, and when I switch to the next 8 tracks bank (or channel) it gets worse, some track names appear repeated, many of them blank, etc. But it's only track name that's affected because every other channel item seems to work fine, the fader, all buttons, and also transport funtions works as expected. HUI functionality is very limited, but at least I would like to be able to use it that way since Avid decided not to implement MCU communication support, which works so much better than HUI.

Tried both MCU and MCU XT together and apart, same problem. In MCU mode they work perfectly fine in Cubase 9, and also in Logic Pro X 10.3 in it's proprietary Logic mode.

It's a real drag because you have to check the computer display everytime to figure out which channels correspond to what on surface, it becomes pretty much unusable.

I wonder if the same happens with older Mackie HUI, or the newer MCU PRO and XT.

The systems I tried with same results are:

Pro Tools 12.5 12.6 12.7

Mac mini server late 2012 on 10.11.6 and 10.12.0 up to 10.12.3
MacBook Pro Retina 15" late 2013 on 10.11.5

Mackie Control Universal and Extender, both with 2.1.2 firmware (also tried older 2.1.1 on both)

UPDATED - NYC East Village Music, Media Studio/Production Space

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Very strange crippling CPU errors

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I'm seeing this on two setups: Native 12.7 HD_OSX 10.12.2 / 11.3.2 HD_OSX 10.10.5 - Mac Pro 2012 12-Core 2.4GHz RAM 48GB

I updated Kontakt to 5.6.5 because Metro Ark won't load in anything else and I have all their horns loaded in my template. This session has almost no mixing plugs yet so mostly Kontakt for now. I'm getting stuck CPU spikes:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qn9u0dugxh...rrors.png?dl=0

Even stranger the spike doesn't change even after making all Kontakts inactive and even stranger the red spikes continue even after the session is closed and I have to shutdown the computer to get the session to load without crashing.

Any ideas? In my 15+ years using PT I've never seen anything like this

Any Market for Old 78 Records?

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I have several boxes of 78 RPM albums that were from my Grandmother's estate about 30 years ago. I haven't looked at them for probably 10 + years or taken an inventory of them. I think most date from the early 1900's (they may have been her mother's). I do remember my grandmother having a wind-up Gramophone player in her basement in the 1960's, but I don't think she ever played any records while I was there visiting. Some have sleeves, some don't.

I do have a turntable but I don't think it plays at 78 RPM, just 33 & 1/3 and 45 RPM, so I don't have a way of transferring them into ProTools. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with 100 year old albums.

Real CPU Usage vs. Pro Tools System Usage Window

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Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding how Pro Tools 11 calculates system usage. I'm working on a fairly heavy project. My system hardly slows down for anything so when it choked during a couple sections I broke out the diagnostic tools.

HWinfo64, CPU-Z, CoreTemp, etc. all show CPU usage as peaking at 55% at the heaviest part of the project, otherwise it stays in the mid 30% range. The Pro Tools system usage window shows sustained CPU usage of over 100% (bar turns red) during the heaviest part, and otherwise will hang around 50-70%. In addition, I confirmed there is zero thermal throttling going on.

I'm pretty confident in my build and have run it through the whole gamut of Prime95, IBT, and other tests and I've seen it get stressed to its limits. WIth this project, it's just getting to the point where the processor should begin to work, yet Pro Tools seems to think it's hitting its limits and is acting accordingly.

First thing I could point to, and maybe something I don't entirely grasp, is my interface's impact. I'm using an old 003 rack and believe me it's first on the list to upgrade. Is this my bottleneck or did I miss a fairly rudimentary setting somewhere?

Thank you very much in advance for any insight!

Relevant Specs:
Core i7-3820 (Overclocked to 4.625Ghz, stable)
16GB 1333 DDR 3 Memory
Separate SSDs for OS, Samples
Separate HDDs for PT Projects, Storage, etc.
Digidesign 003 Rack (firewire 400, legacy drivers as recommended)
Pro Tools 11

Pro Tools, SSL Matrix Routing Issue

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I have a SSL Matrix connected to a 16x16 Apogee interface as well as a patchbay with a few outboard items.

The interface is hooked up to the patchbay and the SSL allows for direct insert of outboard gear.

My question is how can I mix through the console but still be able to monitor through PT? To be able to hear any 2bus processing I might have? Lets say I have all my busses summed in the SSL. 8 Stereo busses. They all have outboard gear inserted. Then feed the mix bus back into PT to monitor in real time?

How could I achieve that? Been wracking my brain but nothing seems to come to me. Hahaha.

Thanks in Advance.
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