RECORDING PRO TOOLS UPDATE

This should have been fixed by the cs5 update of v6.4 but still seems to crop up on older systems, so make sure you have the latest version of Pro Tools software for your hardware.

RECORDING PRO TOOLS MAC OS

This can easily happen when you open a Session created on a Mac OS 9 system, where the forward slash was not an illegal character. The other reason this error message can appear is if a Pro Tools Session (or files within a Session) has more than 31 characters for the name, or uses illegal characters like circumflexes, exclamation marks, brackets, semicolons, forward and backward slashes, or international characters from other languages (any characters in the Extended ASCII set, including accented characters). A quick fix for errors relating to lack of hard drive space is to change the Open Ended Record Allocation to a fixed value. This is done by going into Preferences in the Setup menu in the Operations tab, set the recording allocation to 30 minutes or less.

However, if it's an emergency and you don't have time to clean up your drive properly, you can get some short-term relief from this error by reducing the Open Ended Record Allocation to a smaller value. To stop this error message returning you may also need to defragment your drive, so that the empty space on your drive is all in the same place rather than scattered across the drive in little pieces. Failing that, clear some space on your audio drive by backing up some old Sessions and then deleting them. The best way to resolve this is to use a different drive with more space on it. One is that the drive that you use for audio (and you aren't using the drive that has your operating system and applications, are you?) is getting close to full. So before you call the technical support line, take a look at Sound On Sound 's guide to diagnosing and fixing the most common faults.įor the first of our Pro Tools workshops, we're going to look at some of the most common problems that can occur when you're using the program - usually when you're in a crucial session, or up against an immovable deadline! As you've probably found, Pro Tools has a habit of generating some rather cryptic error messages when things go wrong, so firstly, let's see if we can demistify some of these. Whatever computer recording system you use, the chances are it's going to fall over sooner or later, and Pro Tools is no exception.

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