Pro Tools Mixing Levels and Summing Issues

maxraphael · 16th November 2008

Hello, thanks in advance to anyone that can help. We're running Mac OS 10.4 with Pro Tools 6.4, with 888/24 interfaces, and we're having the following issues with Pro Tools:

Our mixes will completely change when we reopen them sometimes. If I say, put a sine wave on a track at -20dB, and leave it at unity, it will get to a master track (also at unity) and be louder. I'm having the issue as i write this, and I noticed it happening without reopening this time: I was adding a plugin to a track, and a status bar came up, which was telling me it was deactivating my inserts. I watched the names of all the used plugins go by, and then right after, it said it was reactivating all the plugins. When I resumed playback, all my plugs were in tack, but certain tracks were slamming the master!

I have tried trashing the Pro Tools Prefs in the preferences folder of the library, as well as the .plist, and also the Volumes folder inside the application support folder.
It's like my fader positions are meaningless. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Most appreciated,

Max

toolz · 16th November 2008

Hi, update to the last CS 6.4.1 version, there was an issue with jumping levels in +12 sessions. 6.4 is an HD only version even tho it works wih mix, support was pretty flakey for mix systems at that time. If you convert the session to +6 and play all will be good also.

maxraphael · 16th November 2008

i think you have saved the day. thanks for your reply.

you were right - levels were jumping up 12 db. faders were also jumping when the inserts were de-activating and re-activating as i described above. also, when changing all tracks' outputs, it would give that re- and de-activating plug-ins message again, and not all outs would change. then when i went back and changed the these, the outs jumped 12 db again.

this all seems to be cleared up just by changing the session to 6db, although i will download the cs update soon to be sure.

thanks! you're the man

frenkonio · 16th November 2008

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Originally Posted by maxraphael

We're running Mac OS 10.4 with Pro Tools 6.4, with 888/24 interfaces, and we're having the following issues with Pro Tools

It's not possible to run PT 6.4.1cs4 (latest version of PT fully compatible with the old Mix Systems) with Tiger. The latest version is 10.3.9, Panther. How can you do it?

16th November 2008	#1
maxraphael Gear interested Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 10 Thread Starter	Pro Tools Mixing Levels and Summing Issues Hello, thanks in advance to anyone that can help. We're running Mac OS 10.4 with Pro Tools 6.4, with 888/24 interfaces, and we're having the following issues with Pro Tools: Our mixes will completely change when we reopen them sometimes. If I say, put a sine wave on a track at -20dB, and leave it at unity, it will get to a master track (also at unity) and be louder. I'm having the issue as i write this, and I noticed it happening without reopening this time: I was adding a plugin to a track, and a status bar came up, which was telling me it was deactivating my inserts. I watched the names of all the used plugins go by, and then right after, it said it was reactivating all the plugins. When I resumed playback, all my plugs were in tack, but certain tracks were slamming the master! I have tried trashing the Pro Tools Prefs in the preferences folder of the library, as well as the .plist, and also the Volumes folder inside the application support folder. It's like my fader positions are meaningless. Does anyone have any suggestions? Most appreciated, Max

16th November 2008	#3
maxraphael Gear interested Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 10 Thread Starter	thanks i think you have saved the day. thanks for your reply. you were right - levels were jumping up 12 db. faders were also jumping when the inserts were de-activating and re-activating as i described above. also, when changing all tracks' outputs, it would give that re- and de-activating plug-ins message again, and not all outs would change. then when i went back and changed the these, the outs jumped 12 db again. this all seems to be cleared up just by changing the session to 6db, although i will download the cs update soon to be sure. thanks! you're the man

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16th November 2008	#2
toolz Gear addict Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Bristol UK Posts: 321	Hi, update to the last CS 6.4.1 version, there was an issue with jumping levels in +12 sessions. 6.4 is an HD only version even tho it works wih mix, support was pretty flakey for mix systems at that time. If you convert the session to +6 and play all will be good also.