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[@waynewav]

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[@TheOneJPtv]

ProTools won’t convert songs to wav. Anymore for Mastering purposes..and wth is -6104 error I keep gettin? Can I reinstall ProTools and fix both issues? Please Help! I’m using PT7LE

[@tobinarmstrong1862]

Another option in the playback engine dialogue box is having "dynamic plug-in processing" activated. It only uses CPU on Plug-ins that have audio actively being processed. For example, if a plug-in is inserted on a track/aux/mstr but there is no audio for any moment, your CPU will kind of stand-by that plug-in's CPU demand. If you don't have dynamic plug-in processing checked, any plug-in loaded will use your CPU.

[@skatepark02]

Thnaks for this! I had mine unchecked because I thought that setting would use more processing power, I never knew what it actually did.

[@iamjp1]

You don’t understand how clutch this video was😂anytime i search up pro tools troubleshoots on youtube, your shit is always the best😂💯

[@KillforKickz]

agree

[@dariofromthefuture3075]

Big same

[@09akapido]

You are amazing! I scrolled across you 6 months ago and that was my best move. Thanks for all you do. You are literally a life saver.

[@saidmrad]

if you disable the video engine in the playback engine that would save a lot of cpu power

[@tomywidacol]

I stopped using pro tools after 17 years because of this exact thing. Randomly getting cpu overloads. I’ve tried everything you could think of and it would even mess up while tracking with no plugins and it would do it in random spots while working paid sessions. I finally moved over to logic and never had any issues like that.

[@GregRocs]

Exactly my predicament

[@tomywidacol]

@@GregRocs switch to Logic or something else more stable it’s not worth the headache

[@bigromuzic]

Appreciate u picking my question G!

[@waynewav]

No doubt fam!!

[@apexgaddancehall2394]

No jokes!!

[@MrJnice18]

I swear I learn something new every time u drop a video bro thanks

[@waynewav]

💯

[@MrSonicAlchemy]

Google Chrome will cause major CPU issues on Mac with ProTools 2021.3, even when Chrome is not running !!! I just deleted Chrome and instantly solved my Pro Tools freezes and CPU overloads. The buffer size had no effect at all.

[@justinhenryrebel]

All facts. I have chrome on my max and it’s the worst. It’s great on pc but I’m deleting it myself. It slows everything down.

[@JayHartMusic]

bro I don't even use pro tools anymore I have it but its 11 but watching your videos make me wanna upgrade for the simple fact you explain how work and use the daw very good I apprecitae you brotha!!!

[@chs2011]

I'm always watching your vids and never commenting cuz I be so lit and excited bout yo tutorials actually woking. But keep it up bro! i done learned so much from you i feel like an alumni student in the comments lol

[@waynewav]

Lol. Right on fam. Please don’t ever hesitate to comment or reach out I try to reply to everyone! I’m glad you learning💯💯

[@TonyAnswer]

When I first started mixing a few years back I would put delay and reverb on each track individually. Destroyed my cpu usage. Pro tools would get slow and stop responding on a mix with like 10 tracks lol. Computer wasn't the best but I made it work. Something else I''ll do is bounce out vocals with the tuning printed on before I start doing things like eq and compression etc. This could be because I'm used to mixing on older computers but I always found auto tune to use up more power than other plugins and having it on 10 tracks was just not possible.

[@waynewav]

Yea great tip. Commit the auto tune. Pro tools allows you to commit the whole rack now. But I’m afraid of commitment. Lol

[@SteveStockmalMusic]

Ahaaaaaa Now I know who popped you in da eye-yaey-yaaaeeehh... She was like “ put a ring on it” and you were like “ I have a hard time using the Commit feature”, so she was like “pop” in your eye !!!! (LOLOLOLOL just messing around, how it’s better now.

[@2shotDerringer]

System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results > uncheck every category and uncheck "Allow Spotlight Suggestions in Look up" > Privacy > add Applications, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, and all your hard drives... Cons: You lose Spotlight functionality. Pros: Spotlight never sends your system into overload when it starts indexing everything ever again.

[@hollawait]

*thanks again* . *i hope your eyes get better soon bro* ✋

[@thesuncollective1475]

So fed up of Protools locking up I switched to Studio One using same computer for 2 years not locked up once QED

[@Zachskatesstreet]

no way I think im gonna try that out man I guess some computers arent meant for pro tools and some are but fucks me ill be working on a session and it will just freeze for like 10 seconds at a time so if your telling through your experience that theres a better world then I must try see, because I dont wanna know about pro tools anymore!

[@xposeshure]

Thnx WayneWav - it was indeed dope - fixed me up w science for quicker session compliance. Lessons sound like $$$'s well spent

[@raysmetana1826]

Still great info… Thanks for all your help Wavy , you do a great job of explaining things in a way that is easy to understand

[@airellshields3585]

Cut of your firewall, activity monitor, energy saver, screen timer, which is a monitor when to tell the computer to sleep. Defrag disk, and delete unnecessary files. Change the cache in Protools when getting noise.

[@jeremytorres-jimenez1288]

Thank you! just bought pro tools and I greatly appreciate the content.

[@clifford_ramos]

Thank you so much for this video! Really clear to understand and very presentable! Thank you for your help! :)

[@waynewav]

No problem!

[@AlexRG8]

First I got great tips and trick how to EQ vocals and my music and now a solution for cpu overload. Your the man! Superscribing!

[@ChambersOnIt]

The head swings on the intros are just too funny

[@waynewav]

😂😂

[@RipperTheEntertainer]

Thank you. I usually run everything through the aux. But I'm guilty of that add reverb separately to every single track situation

[@buzzydj]

it's weird because i have an 8 core cpu with 32gb of ram and still got this error. the mystery is beyond frustrating. Thanks for the upload and your input.

[@GregRocs]

I have same issue and was hoping to solve

[@ernestgreen2815]

Did you ever resolve that issue? I’m dealing with that prob as well…

[@boogiejonz]

Dynamic Plug-in Processing only uses plug-ins when they are needed.

[@waynewav]

Good one.

[@aguponcefractalblow4761]

The function Commit on tracks print the plug-ins in a new audio track and is really helpful when you’ve got lots of them. Then if you wanna modify sth you always can go back to the original Track

[@ALEJANDROG1080]

I keep getting this error code but I haven't done any processing, i just have recorded tracks in my session

[@richcashhempstead4800]

wavy wayne a whole G . lol .. nobody wondering about the eye tho lol

[@richcashhempstead4800]

how many think it was shorty on the hook

[@EliDaIllest00]

@@richcashhempstead4800 😭

[@backingtrackguys]

For Pro Tools is a vengeful goddess. One must not taunt Pro Tools. Her DAE error can smite you with the greatest of ease and while in one moment you bask in her glory, the next, she will destroy you and force one reset, to the next. Yay, speak softly in her presence and pray that today, the day of your important drum tracking session with a famous drummer, that she smiles upon thee. For if you forsake her glory, your buffer size shall not save you from the wrath.

[@elliotpmusic3789]

Thank you SO much for that video man, I was getting really concerned of all those error messages!

[@kevindelk]

I never had this error problem until I started using EZ keys or EZ bass. And that's with nothing else in the session either. Just 1 singing track. And CPU power says only using 4%. Totally no clue. Anyone else have this problem??

[@Ranphis1357]

Have you managed to find a fix? I'm literally not using anything kept one plugin and I get the CPU error as well. nothing running in the background either.

[@2shotDerringer]

Change the disk playback cache size in the playback engine from "normal" to 25% of your RAM.

[@SteveStockmalMusic]

Great tip...amazing nobody jumped in with a comment or like. I’ll do it right now. That CPU warning box and I are fast becoming greatly acquainted...which sucks.

[@Goldboat618]

This helped me today

[@hamzafundikira9188]

Man the music you work on is always fire

[@ChloeSpiritual]

Yooo thank you for this video!! It was so frustrating 😂 I tried increasing the buffer size and everything

[@cartierquey7823]

Hope everything good bro

[@3rinity]

Thanks man for the tips I think you helped me with my cpu errors

[@waynewav]

Awesome!

[@anthonypasco8729]

Thank you so much! You are amazing at how well you explain this. I appreciate you very much! Helped me out in my bind.

[@jimschrader9507]

thanks for the info, and for your upbeat, easy vibe.

[@kingech_B15]

UAD family 👌🏾👌🏾 Great tech tips wavy

[@waynewav]

🙏🏽🙏🏽💯

[@ricks2907]

You rock bro thanks and keep waving 👋

[@waynewav]

💯💯

[@SteveStockmalMusic]

So what happens to me quite a lot is that the CPU box pops up, I hit OK and play again get weird “distorted “Cyclon” (BattleStar Galactica) digital fart sound”. I figured out that unplugging my headphones and plugging them back in fixed it (but that would eventually ruin that input)...but now I just change the buffer size to anything else and that does it. That’s a good hack for any stall, freezing, won’t play issues. I think Commit and Freeze are probably the best ideas for the “Battle of the CPU”. Thanks for another great “eye popping” video (ouch)

[@BigMacApe]

If anybody is having like audio problems it's bc u have demo plugins so I would just replace them with plugins that are already installed in pro tools

[@kennymorrell4240]

Great Stuff WW. Simple straight to the point. Thanks

[@ce1402]

Wouldn't Freezing or Committing some tracks help also?

[@yiqwaba3833]

Write down all of the installers, and delete them after saving them on chrome or usb flash drive. Update plugins but uninstalled the old ones first one by one, the old driver will cause issues on the update. If you mix videos try to get a second computer just for that , videos and software takes up so much space some software is 900 Meg's.

[@MickBrownFolksinger]

Great video

[@theortha718]

Great stuff

[@carlossmith2695]

Need to ask questions: First sound playback on a finished song was disabled and none of the multitude of fixes worked, so I decided to start over. Tried to use a previous template that worked and now screen is frozen on the I/O setup window. Ready to pull the plug because I’m frustrated. Carlos S

[@michaelnaughton592]

Good video WavyWanye. I also found it helpt to increase the Cache Size.

[@Sk8man13Br]

Does pro tools power scheme use more CPU or just power consumption? Also do you recommend having it selected during recording and mixing process?

[@al-existenciamusic5378]

Thank you bro hey hope your eye gets better God bless you

[@michael-j9m5m]

My pro tools seized while in set up I/o page .I was trying to designate my interface and advice appreciated. O ya windows 10

[@elibaez582]

@fivesixspins Also wanted to add; by default AVID Video Engine is enabled. This can take up to 4gb of RAM which can lead to memory issues while using ProTools. To disable go to (in ProTools) Setup > Playback Engine > Video Engine > uncheck this box. I'm sure Windows is in a similar fashion. Found this link to be helpful: www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2017/6/5/avid-video-engine-if-you-use-pro-tools-then-read-this Hope this helps someone! Thanks for the video!!!

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[@tristan8141]

Great tips Wavy Wayne. Thanks

[@famoustwins2x]

G O A T I tell you major goat🐐

[@waynewav]

Thanks Fam!1

[@iansmith3261]

Defrag your HD... comp doesnt need so much energy lookin for stuff...defragin it keeps the disk neat and tidy. Im runnin PT 1st on a pentium processor...rec as you know is i5 or better...but hey got 6 songs recorded, just have to breakdown the work flow..can only do so much with limited cpu power, and PT intro daw...I got maybe 3 reverbs, 1 comp/limit...

[@odinnhrafnsson6267]

You're the best WavyWayne

[@JesusArmasOficial]

One way I've found very nice, is to commit MIDI to audio. And if I'm using guitar plugins, once I've decided my sound for these DI tracks I freeze the tracks to save some power. If I need to make a change in sounds I can unfreeze and disable the commit as well. It has helped me a lot. I generally keep MIDI unfreezed when I'm producing, not mixing.

[@waynewav]

Facts. Virtual instruments eat up that CPU!

[@Slypooch]

When it works it works flawlessly then when it doesn’t nothing works at all when everything worked the day before. And i didn’t change a thing. Very frustrating

[@jadesiress3382]

Thanks for the great detailed advice!

[@ToneD5150]

Yes sir! Subscribed 😊

[@TieDiesel]

Great info bro, preciate you. ✊🏿💪🏿💯

[@waynewav]

💯💯

[@seangrim3293]

that beat is dope hard at intro.

[@gitarman666]

Waiting on a 27” iMac intel (maybe one of the last intels before AMD)3.6 ghz - turbo boost to 5gb, 10th gen 10 cores i9, 72 gigs ram if I’m still hurting I might be switching I got Studio One on a partitioned drive so I’m learning it but prefer ProTools I got my cert on mpower 8, also I with avid would create a feature to enable auto buffer size changes when your tracking and float back on playback for mixing

[@pucchilovetheme8368]

Thanks brother for this video you nailed it Peace n Love

[@theriot5150]

Keep getting the AAE -6101 Sign....nothing works

[@TwirlTheWorld813]

Wayne you got a UAD template ? 👀

[@primeinterests8313]

Not sure if it's true. Somebody told me if you render every single track and bounce them out and load them back in it'll stop the computer from straining on power

[@clockwork143]

The man..Sorted every time.

[@michaelcheeseman1997]

what would be happening when i play back my session and my keyboards are changing key in the middle of play back

[@malcomfitzpatrick5795]

Nice video bro, I had got one of your templates and I have a few questions about it. What would be the best way to get them answered?

[@waynewav]

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@@waynewav What's your email or should I provide mine?

[@bodycastmusic3153]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@DUBCEAST49]

Running PT studio 2022.5.0 on a 15-inch MacBook Pro mid 2012 8GB ram core i7 2.3 GHz 1TB 5400 RPM HDD non retina (the 83 cutlass of Macs)I have NOT had anymore PLAYBACK ISSUES with this combo in the playback engine. H/W buffer size: 64 samples OPTIMIZATIONS: Ignore errors during playback, dynamic plugin processing, limit number of real time threads DISK PLAYBACK CACHE: 1GB (this IS the most important step) currently writing this while, watching your video....playing pro tools on another screen....NO PLAYBACK ISSUES!! No errors no nothing. I solved the issue. Test it out and see if it works for you.

[@mr.cookie3164]

Dude thank you for this.

[@smokeshowtunes1505]

Disable the video engine if you're not using video!!

[@waynewav]

💯

[@andwilkdaycabdaykab1846]

What about when ProToolz won't save in file location 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@waynewav]

You may need to change drive permissions in the workspace browser.

[@johnb6723]

Biggest problem these days is either poor or non existent compatibility with the computer's operating system. ProTools just doesn't seem to keep up any more, haven't been any updates to the app for almost a whole year, while Mac OS has in that time done one major update and four or five minor ones, and Windows 10 has updated several times too. It won't work at all on Mac because the Mac OS is now Catalina, which doesn't support 32 bit apps like ProTools and Yellow Tools Independence. Windows 10 is too advanced for ProTools to run well inside it and it freezes after a few seconds of use, like it is about to produce the black screen of death.

[@soniq7069]

Thank you 🙏🏼 my good sir

[@darwinyoung11]

What's up, I would like to see you get into Studio One...DOPE...FIYA

[@alinbate4580]

Pro Tools can be use with Threadripper 1920X?

[@hobypop]

I love you Wavy Wayne :D

[@andrewmayling2299]

Thanks so much this is great!

[@Keola-k5x]

I open up my pro tools artist and create a session then click open. It starts to open., but then it doesnʻt open. All my other sessions open fine. What am i doing wrong?

[@5ision]

Thank you soo much !

[@davidwiseman3109]

Hey Wayne, great vid! What if I'm recording a live show, though. Should I set my H/W buffer size high? Latency isn't an issue since no one needs to hear what's being recorded.

[@joshmarrs2080]

I use Tracks Live by Waves, its free to use and super user friendly, just bounce it out to pro tools for mixing later

[@boilyrikkal2370]

Why does my play button glow green and pause button glow blue and it never plays. its Not the buffer and its not latency and also its not using an output for mic somewhere else

[@masterwizvrd]

Whats the disk cache feature about under playback engine? I hear the settings may affect CPU Power in some capacity, but I could be wrong.

[@MoneyAfterDeath]

Much Love thank you

[@djtwilite318]

check out waves impact servers its like uad but can use way more plugins like around 400 plugins at once and they are more affordable. i use uad and waves impact c server and my system works great now...if i knew about the waves server before uad i would of just got the waves setup only..

[@devonte3456]

Do you do classes on beginners

[@furryz666]

They gotta add ram cache usage in pt native can’t swing the hd version but I got tons of ram

[@kaerlighe9]

How can it be that my computer CPU is around 6 - 13, while Pro Tools CPU goes from 40 - 100 within seconds..,.and crash ,,,?

[@hometeam4728]

Great Tips 💯

[@oliverj3180]

How to fix CPU error for autotune? My autotune keep making my session crash

[@CreativeBlue]

Working Pro Tools locally vs in the cloud -- in terms of CPU usage and efficiency. Any advice?

[@KeepTheGates]

Step 1 - Uninstall and download a DAW that isn't garbage.

[@KillforKickz]

Im building a new pc with a 12 core processor, will that help get rid of this error

[@ezporcelain]

8:24 Hey! What does the Disk Playback section do? Can it help? How about the "freeze" feature? Does it exist in ProTools? I'd definitely USE Separate Project for recording. I usually create separate folders inside of my project (song) folder - 1 for recording (1st) & then second (with the "!" before it's name so it'll stay on top) for the Mixing. p.s. Off the topic: Is there a shortcut for "save as"? What about the AutoSave feature? If it does exist, can it save with the different names like every 10/30 minutes? I usually "save as" w the different names (incremental numbers and short description of what was I doing there) so I can find it later if something went wrong or let's say I want to extract some Stems before I've rendered the VSTz on them etc THANK YOU! GREAT TUTORIALS MAN HANDS_DOWN. ALSO THE VIBE IS AMAZING. Makes me happier every time I watch a video on your channel!

[@AntKneeLeafEllipse]

Thanks man!