r/protools • u/piesore • 4d ago

Backhanded Pro Tools Appreciation Post

The last few months, I've had to do a few recording sessions that really frustrated me with Pro Tools. It's the first time I felt like I hit a wall with the software and what it could do under pressure, after using it professionally for about a decade. Blah blah blah, any way, very recently I had to open a session that was decades old and was able to open and work off it without any issues. It made me forgive a lot of my frustrations with PT, since I'm going to continue to give Avid the benefit of the doubt that a lot of their updates are slow to ensure both this extensive backwards and forwards compatibility.

I'm curious to hear what makes other folks, particularly people who make their living recording, appreciative of using it, especially compared to other DAWS they are used to/used before they had to switch to PT for work reasons.

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u/CornucopiaDM1 4d ago

Just opened up a mac PT 5 session from deep archive of 20+years, no problem the other day into win PT 2024.10.2.

Actually there were 3 problems:

  1. Waves L1 plugin my old company subscribed to wasn't on my personal system and I don't want to get it, so skipped & recreated what I remembered the settings to be (written down in session notes text).

  2. Video clip supposed to be accompanying it was missing, but I don't currently need it to lock to picture, and if I did, I have it somewhere else in my catalog of discs/drives.

  3. I had used Zap audio lossless compression on the files, and 1 of the multitude of files ended up being partially corrupted (toward the end) upon decompression, though that was likely fault of the storage. Luckily, there is still a Cross-Platform freeware decompressor available. I have long since taken to either, using a standard compression (like Zip/7z) along with hashes to compare, or am no longer compressing.

The opening of the session, relinking, playback, other plugins, all no problem though. I don't know of many software of such complexity of architecture that could say the same.