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With Pro Tools 11 and earlier this could be a real pain, because reallocating outputs could leave you losing automation and so on. This is because my current I/O Setup is different to the I/O Setup I had 11 years ago, and some of the paths don’t line up - including, in this case, the surround tracks on the right-hand side of the Mix window. Note that some tracks are greyed out.Ī trip to the Mix window, meanwhile, reveals several tracks where the faders, pan controls and output routing are greyed out. The Mix window from my 11-year-old session. This problem can also arise with older sessions using TDM or RTAS plug-ins that never got updated to the current AAX Native or DSP formats. However, not all plug-in developers choose to make their plug-ins available in the Avid Marketplace, and so it proved with my missing Aural Exciter, so it was clear that I would need to find an alternative.

Some plug-ins are available as perpetual licences, while others are also offered for a month’s or a year’s rental.

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By logging into your Avid Master Account it is now possible to rent or buy missing plug-ins from the Marketplace menu inside Pro Tools, pay for them and install them, all without having to either close the session or quit Pro Tools. However, before I could get to work on it, there were some things that needed attention.įirst of all, there was that missing plug-in - in this case an Aphex Aural Exciter on the ‘Keys’ track. The audio files were all in WAV format, and Pro Tools had been able to find them all without any intervention. Once I’d Quit the iLok Activation window, my session was soon open just as I left it 11 years ago. Once the session is loaded, the missing licence triggers the Session Notes window, with the slightly obscure message saying that “the following plug-ins were made inactive because of insufficient system resources”. The former offers you the chance to log into your iLok account and buy a licence, while Quit bypasses the authorisation procedure for that licence, loading up the session with that plug-in deactivated. At this point you have two choices: Activate or Quit. All went well - until I got an iLok Activation message advising me that a valid licence wasn’t available for a plug-in used in the session. So, initially, I just double-clicked on the session file on my backup drive to open up my 11-year-old session. All my backups are now ‘online’, and I can access them without having to hunt through drives and disks looking for the right session.

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So, a while back I invested in a dedicated 8TB drive, and copied everything off all my backup drives and older DVD backups in order to have one consolidated backup disk, a Seagate archive drive in an external chassis connected by eSATA to my Mac Pro. I used to keep a selection of drives on the shelf, but if these aren’t used for a while they don’t always spin up when you plug them back in, as the bearings can go sticky. When a plug-in fails to load because you don’t have a valid licence in your iLok, you’ll get this rather misleading message!But back to my session created with Pro Tools 7.3. Pro Tools 10 was the last version that could open a session with SD2 files and automatically convert them to WAV (BWF) files once this is done, you should be able to open the converted session happily in Pro Tools 12. Note that the older your Pro Tools sessions, the more likely it is that the audio file format used will be Sound Designer II, as that was the default audio file format for Pro Tools in the early years. The same applies to session files from versions of Pro Tools earlier than v5.1. If the audio files are Sound Designer II (SD2) format, you will need to find a system with Pro Tools 10 or earlier installed. Pro Tools 12 can only open sessions where the audio files are in WAV or AIFF formats.

The main one is to do with the audio file format. So, although Pro Tools 12 will open sessions from v5.1 upwards, there are some caveats to bear in mind. Dime Or Dozen?Įvery so often, when Avid release a major new version of Pro Tools, they drop support for the oldest session and audio file formats that the previous version could open. Fast forward 11 years, and what would happen when I opened this old session? In this article I am going to walk you through exactly what did happen, and cover the issues that can crop up when you try to get access to older Pro Tools sessions. At that time, Pro Tools sessions were PTF files, and I would have been using Pro Tools 7.3. Today, I needed to open a Pro Tools session I had recorded and mixed back in 2006. In practice, you may need to know a few tricks! In theory, old Pro Tools sessions should open in version 12.

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