Pro Tools Running Slow, Crashes On Open, Fixes and Optimizations! Speed Up and Stabilize Pro Tools!

Pro Tools is known to be a difficult software when it comes to stability. Playback errors and session issues are a fairly ubiquitous experience amongst PT users. This video will cover optimizations to get Pro Tools running its best - including some optimizations that can't be found on the Avid website or in a Google search.

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[tekis]

I want to sincerely say thank-you, Matthew. By following this video I fixed my “sluggish metering.” Also, deleting the PT bridge helped my word clock locking at start-up! Cheers.

[drewkantos]

I've been working professionally with Pro Tools for almost 20 years and some of these are completely new to me. Great video, this one is going in my save folder.

[roq_itrecordingstudio]

Damn !!! Dude !!! Your channel and the info you share ARE INCREDIBLY VALUABLE!!! This video just went behind the secret scenes and supplied gold for this community !! Thank you so so much !!

[jodan__]

It's really the only video on this topic, I learned a few of these way back and forgot about them.

[suedemillionsasabdullsbeatspro]

excellent tutorial my guy!!!! i was stuck but u helped me🔥

[righteousones]

I don’t even have ProTools (or make music at the moment) and, yet here I am 😂

[roffrage]

Now, finally, can use my pro tools. Thank you bro.

[BrianFlores-jfqt]

Uninstalling the Avid Bridge really helped!!! The click track is finally not off-tempo when I use midi instruments!! Thanks bro!

[ngi_nr]

I’m going to try some of these optimizations. I have a 13 trash can. It smokes. However, in the last year or so I’m getting these 1-3 second random hang ups. Driving me bonkers. Great vid. 👍

[JayKoostix]

mine is still stuck on the rainbow loading thingy when I open protools and click something

[dezabel]

Once AVID was sold to a private equity firm it started a downwards spiral. Bear in mind, the new owner has no music industry background and has only one goal, and that's profit. I'm a user of PT for decades, but lately I feel it has become the most unreliable DAW on the planet. Damn, I'd really love to continue to work with PT, but at the same time I have to be realistic and look around for other options, sad but true.

[eshortsax]

Wow…this video is helpful but I’m just glad I didn’t go far in pro tools (bought protools 8/9 in 2009 with my iMac in college but didn’t do much due to classes and work—in 2020 wife bought Studio One for me and been using it ever since lol)!

[nukenoly]

This is fantastic as you can apply this to many DAWs! Also made me realize how finicky this ‘industry standard’ is. Wanted to buy Mbox Studio with Perpetual PT license but will skip it😮Thank you for saving me the headache and space

[Dee.Huncho]

Do you know why my prefereces won't save? I am trying to enable "show insert assignment gain reduction meter" but it keeps unchecking itself? I'm running Pro Tools Artist 2024.3

[zwsh]

I discovered plug-in cycling on my own kuz I realized it was crashing as it was reading the plugs, and if I removed the one that it was scanning as it crashed, it would be able to move on to the next one. So I started removing them in batches. I also learned the hard way that if you try to put them all back at once, it just gets overwhelmed. Reaper reads my VST, vst3 and au plug-in folders when I replace it with a new updated version in like 2 minutes. Yet protools can’t handle more than 30 or so AAX plugins at a time. So annoying. Especially when you’re doing 30 at a time for like 1000 plugins. I know I don’t need them all, but I paid for them gosh darn it and I want my options available. “Protools infrastructure sucks” isn’t the reason I wanted to start ignoring plugins I have yet to even fully explore

[MUSIXGROOVE]

I used to use tdm system and 2 hd cards, and it was all good and solid. not anymore.
thanks for the info i hope to have less crashes.

[Necropheliac]

I started using Pro Tools because everyone told me that this is what most of my peers are using, so I should use it too. Now I'm wondering if there is a better daw without these obvious hiccups in quality.

[Tekkerue]

How to speed up Pro Tools... run Reaper with a Pro Tools theme. 😉

[tekis]

"Plug-in Cycling"! Very cool.

[MUSICGROUP]

Very you have a video on missing plugins?