Protools First keeps defaulting to 44.1kHz sample rate.

[dhulcombe]

I am doing my Masters research in online collaboration. I am wanting a colleague of mine to collaborate on some projects. They have installed Protools First, hoping to collaborate with me as they normally use Logic Pro. He is running a Universal Audio Apollo 8 interface with a MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Core i7 17 running Sierra 10.12.6. I have the full HD Protools Ultimate. The issue we are having is that every project I create on my system at 48kHz 24 Bit and share him into. It automatically changes the session on his system to 44.1kHz sample rate. This means the project has audio out of sync. We have tried the following troubleshoots
1/ Closing ProTools> resetting his Apollo 8 to 48kHz> Opening up PT1 while holding down 'n' to bring up the playback engine dialogue box, making sure PT1 is also set to 48kHz> then re-opening the project. Still reverted to 44.1kHz
2/ trashing his preferences (com.avid.ProTools.plist). This worked when he created his own project in 48kHz, however, when he opened up my project, it reverted back to 44.1kHz.
We cannot change his setting once the project is open. As I am the owner of the project, it is still showing as a 24-bit 48khz project on my system. Can you please help us with this?

[recurve]

I have this problem too, are there any solutions? I've only had it defaulting to 48k for a short period and I don't know why it worked then and not anymore?

[jpaulo]

Same problem here, MacOS 13, Scarlett 2i2

Even if I change the midi or the scarlett setting to 48Khz, after creating a new project PT defaults to 44kHz - and does not allow changes.
Any attempt defaults back to 44Khz.
Any luck anywhere with this?

I installed PTF to get 48kHz, spent 2 days trying to figure out how to make PTF work after a problem with an avid background service - when I finally made it, I bumped into this. Maybe I am destined to keep GarageBand at 44kHz...

oops - edited: just figured it out:
disconnected Focusrite, changed the rate to 48khz (for some reason the dropbox appeared) and reconnected again - now at 48kHz!
Let's see what the next trick is...

Tks