Keeping Preferences and Settings when opening other studios projects.

[pepepan]

Hi everybody, I'm new in this forum.

I'm having this issue,

Every time I open a PT project in my computer, that was recorded in another studio, my PT preferences and settings change. Then if I open a new project, I'll have the others preferences, transport settings, view settings (as clip info), waves colours, etc. I change the I/O settings to mine when opening their projects, but I can't find how to keep my settings and preferences and not "importing" theirs. I hope this is clear. Please help me with this. Thanks a lot in advance!

[albee1952]

I've never found an "easy" way to do this. I just spend the first 15 minutes doing "cleanup".

Step1-open Setup>IO>Bus tab and delete any bogus paths mapped to outputs. Also look for any duplicate paths(and delete) and anything that needs to be renamed. Then save.

Step 2-adjust things like track color, zoom settings and track size.

Step 3-reset track outputs for my rig. Set any unavailable inputs to NONE.

Save again(I might go Save As and rename the session so I know its all set for my system, leaving the original intact)

[DJ Hellfire]

What I do is when I first get my brand new interface, I open a blank session and map all of my i/o, busses, and hardware inserts the way I want them to show and in the order I want them. Then save the i/o setup file. Only have to do this once when you first get the interface. Whenever I get a session from a client, I simply open i/o setup and on each tab (Inputs, Outputs, Busses), I load my own i/o settings and delete any unused busses and any i/o paths not used in the session when it asks.

As for the colors and transport, always have to do that manually.

[polyh3dron]

Use the PT Prefs tool made by Pete Gates, you can find it in this very forum. I've used it to manage preferences for multiple users on the same system.

[The Weed]

And Trasher for PC allows you to not only backup and restore your Preferences, but also your I/O settings.

[pepepan]

Hi guys, thanks for your answers! So whith the Pete Gates tool, can I save my preferences and call them any time I open others projects? Does that works on Mac and PT 12?

[Stig Eliassen]

Originally Posted by pepepan

Hi guys, thanks for your answers! So whith the Pete Gates tool, can I save my preferences and call them any time I open others projects? Does that works on Mac and PT 12?

Yes. You can backup/restore pretty much anything. Very handy tool.