Can't hear anything on my Pro Tools 10

[TheKey555777]

Why can't I hear any music on my Pro Tools 10? When I press play to hear my music, I never can hear my Pro Tools 10 play anything.

[TOM@METRO]

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=300050

[TheKey555777]

I press play to play virtual instruments and I don't hear anything.

[musicman691]

I press play to play virtual instruments and I don't hear anything.
Please read and follow what Tom linked to above. The crew here are more than willing to help but we need more information. And not just system setup, etc. mentioned in the linked page but also exactly what you are doing or trying to do.

Also see this little bit of stuff I wrote up as it covers a lot of ground that could help you as well.

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=336219

[TheKey555777]

I just need to know how to be able to hear my Pro Tools play anything.

[musicman691]

I just need to know how to be able to hear my Pro Tools play anything.
You need to read the documentation that came with Pro Tools. Also get yourself the PT101 for Pro Tools 10 book. That will take newbie's like yourself from zero to recording your first stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Tools-101-Introduction-Book/dp/1133776558/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364744068&sr=1-1&keywords=pro+tools+101

Also comes with a dvd.

Did you read the page here on the DUC I linked to? Several good things here. We can't do it all for you - you have to do some learning yourself. You're asking some basic stuff that can be answered by doing some judicious reading of the existing material.

[Benoni]

I just need to know how to be able to hear my Pro Tools play anything.

What interface? What OS? Are drivers installed? Can you record? What are you trying to hear play back? Where are you monitoring from? Headphones? Monitors? Built in?

We can't help you until we have a lot more info. :cool:

[RegenerationMix]

How is your mixer setup and routed?

are you trying to play existing tracks/ samples, live VIs?

Do you have a midi track triggering the Virtual instruments? are you triggering the virtual instruments manually? do you have a midi controller? Is your midi setup at all?

are you trying to record? Is a track armed? are you auditioning the VI? Which VI?

Do you have your inputs and outputs setup? Does your mixer have an output? are the tracks setup to the output? are you monitoring form the output?

As was asked earlier, do you have an interface? which one? is it connected and seen by Pro tools?

info, info, info,

You need to give us your setup info and what you are doing and what doesn happen for us to help you. We can not magically answer why your "Pro Tools" doesnt play.



Chris

[musicman691]

What interface? What OS? Are drivers installed? Can you record? What are you trying to hear play back? Where are you monitoring from? Headphones? Monitors? Built in?

We can't help you until we have a lot more info. :cool:
Sadly the op seems to be what I'm seeing more and more of on the DUC lately - those that think PT is plug and play software, they need no technical knowledge on how things work and that we here are psychics in diagnosing problems with minimal or no info.

[YYR123]

Really would be a good idea to request some kind of idea scale information asking avid to include more types of videos with the actual purchase that way a lot of these Type of I/o questions / getting started questions are really taking care of At the time of purchase while the user is installing the software

Because let's all be honest we would all rather watch a cool video about how to set it up then read the manual
I'm not saying there's not a place for the manual. But maybe not on the install For the M box crowd

[Bill Denton]

Really would be a good idea to request some kind of idea scale information asking avid to include more types of videos with the actual purchase that way a lot of these Type of I/o questions / getting started questions are really taking care of At the time of purchase while the user is installing the software

Because let's all be honest we would all rather watch a cool video about how to set it up then read the manual
I'm not saying there's not a place for the manual. But maybe not on the install For the M box crowd

Just my own perception, but given what appears to be the direction Avid is moving, I doubt they would be interested in producing videos of this type.

Pro Tools is simply not a product for beginners, especially those who aren't willing to do any learning on their own.

Avid (actually Digidesign) made their mark by supplying professional-grade hardware and software to professional users. And it appears that they are going to return to focusing almost exclusively on those customers.

And, all things considered, that is probably the best thing for Avid to do at this time...

[musicman691]

I think Russ at Pro Tools Expert has a video on exactly helping newbies get PT running. Groove 3 also has some good stuff on getting PT up and running. Worth the money. Then again the op has to want to pay the money and watch the videos and follow what's on them.

[YYR123]

Yes agreed to both bill and Scott - but mbox sell in the 10's of millions and I would wager (a mbox mini) that its a huge portion of the income for them

If the wanna focus in the professional only - I'm all for that but I think it would be foolish to turn away all that revenue

So make a few videos to get em started and include them in the account when they register - 7 basic points - install / playback engine - I/o / instantiating effects - / Midi /

Ok so maybe 4 videos :D but the point is they have spent the money now lets keep them in the product line

First purchase here for most people was an Mbox (mine was Mbox2pro)

Then You get a 003r / then you get them entrenched in the product line - keep spending money

It's good business - which leads to happy customers - which leads to more business

[TheKey555777]

It says that my computer monitor is a Windows 7. I can't record. I'm trying to playback anything. I'm using headphones.

I don't know what this stuff is: interface, OS, drivers, what I'm 'monitoring from', monitors, 'built-in'

[Bill Denton]

After reading his latest post, I would wonder if the OP is sufficiently knowledgeable to use any DAW software, much less one as advanced as Pro Tools...

[musicman691]

It says that my computer monitor is a Windows 7. I can't record. I'm trying to playback anything. I'm using headphones.

I don't know what this stuff is: interface, OS, drivers, what I'm 'monitoring from', monitors, 'built-in'
You need to READ and COMPREHEND the manuals and other documentation that came with your Mbox and Pro Tools. I don't know how much clearer that can be made.

[DetroitT]

OK thekey5557777....
It seems your in Michigan. Before we all get wrapped up that your inexperience
is frustrating to help, Studio-A in Dearborn offers Pro Tools 101 classes.
Depending on your age local community colleges and universities also offer education on this. I may also point out that reading is your first defense, then research and ask poignant questions. If English is a language barrier then consider asking were to get information in your native language where comprehension could be achieved.

If your just hootin' then it's April Fools on us.
This is a nowhere post.

[albee1952]

Call your nearest large music store(like Guitar Center or Sam Ash). Most offer free Pro Tools classes.

[TheKey555777]

Why can't someone tell me why I can't hear anything on my Pro Tools? What's wrong with it? I just bought it. It's brand new.
There is a code: -7 error on my Pro Tools.

[musicman691]

Why can't someone tell me why I can't hear anything on my Pro Tools? What's wrong with it? I just bought it. It's brand new.
There is a code: -7 error on my Pro Tools.
Why can't you tell us more about what you are doing to get this error message? Have you read ANYTHING in this thread at all about what you can do to help yourself? We need to know a LOT more about your setup.

[P,B,S]

Why can't I hear any music on my Pro Tools 10? When I press play to hear my music, I never can hear my Pro Tools 10 play anything.

Although it is always funny when people put links to the help us help you page it isnt all that constructive. From my experience often isnt that helpfull either.


CHECK YOUR i/O
THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM
OR

If you do have your i/o set correct
let me guess,
you can press play in your V,I
and it plays
But it doesnt play along to PT when you press play in PT not the V,I
or even not at all
You need to create a midi track to sync with your V,I
If you dont have a midi track with lanes that you draw on it will not sync or communicate with PT. ITS NOT AUTOMATIC until you make a midi track and assign it to such.
You have a audio or instrument track now you need a midi track to tell it what to do
make sure you midi tracks input is set to your V,I
if you only have one pattern
draw a line on midi track 3 . press play .
If that doesn't sync your midi V,I to play start stop
try a different lane in the midi channel.

THERE IS A GREAT TUTORIAL ON THE BASICS OF THIS
It is a BOOM tutorial but demonstrates how to sync PT with V,Is
check it out its a two part tutorial that will explain what your issue is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-XqyXA29I

Watch the whole thing please,
it will go over stuff you may already know, but it will go over stuff you don't . And thats the problem

[musicman691]

Although it is always funny when people put links to the help us help you page it isn't all that constructive. From my experience often isn't that helpful either.


CHECK YOUR i/O
THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM
OR

If you do have your i/o set correct let me guess, you can press play in your VI and it plays
But it doesnt play along to PT when you press play in PT not the VI
or even not at all
You need to create a midi track to sync with your VI
If you dont have a midi track with lanes that you draw on it will not sync or communicate with PT. ITS NOT AUTOMATIC until you make a midi track and assign it to such.
You have a audio or instrument track now you need a midi track to tell it what to do make sure you midi tracks input is set to your VI
if you only have one pattern draw a line on midi track 3 . press play .
If that doesn't sync your midi V,I to play start stop
try a different lane in the midi channel.

THERE IS A GREAT TUTORIAL ON THE BASICS OF THIS
It is a BOOM tutorial but demonstrates how to sync PT with V,Is
check it out its a two part tutorial that will explain what your issue is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-XqyXA29I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-XqyXA29I)

Watch the whole thing please,
it will go over stuff you may already know, but it will go over stuff you don't . And thats the problem
The link to the 'help us to help you' in a post is helpful because there's a lot of people who don't look at the top of a forum page. They just see it as so much fluff and it isn't.

And some of your info is wrong. If you have a vi on an instrument track you don't need a separate MIDI track. Instrument tracks are a combo of Aux Input tracks and MIDI tracks.

And you don't 'sync' tracks with one another to play or record. You route let's say a MIDI track to either an Aux or Audio track which hosts the vi. There's lots more a user needs to do and know than what you mention before they can get any sound out of PT. And it seems that the OP doesn't want to do that - he wants people to figure it out for him without him doing any work on his own.

[RegenerationMix]

It says that my computer monitor is a Windows 7. I can't record. I'm trying to playback anything. I'm using headphones.

I don't know what this stuff is: interface, OS, drivers, what I'm 'monitoring from', monitors, 'built-in'

OS is operating system, interface is the external device like an Mbox, or 002 or 003 that lets you plug in microphones and such and works with the software.

Monitoring can be from headphones, from monitor speakers, from the outputs on your interface, from the outputs of your computer.

From the sound of it, you do not have an interface, nor know anything about a mixer or routing audio/ midi, or know anything about a computer system. I would recommend you stop and read the MANUAL that came with Pro tools, and buy a manual on what a computer is, what OS is, and drivers etc.

Your percentage for success is pretty much zero. Pro Tools is not starter audio software, and newbies on a windows based system is a train wreck waiting to happen. I know, my mom is still trying to figure her computer out.

I cant answer your question of why Pro Tools wont play because you cant answer what you are doing and with what. What the monitor shows to you is meaningless.

Your one hope is to know someone who knows computers and pro tools and have them come over and get you started.


Chris