some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

Hi, I just loaded one of my sessions that was basically mixed to liking already. I click play and all the music is there, but most of the vocal tracks are not playing back.
I looked in edit screen and the waveforms are there and the automation appears to be working right in terms of volume and mutes. The green level meters on these tracks are not showing any signal at all. I'm fairly new to pt, but this is the first time I've run across this problem.
Again, when I last saved it, everything played back fine with all the tracks working.
Any ideas??

Thanks,
Steve

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

anyone??????

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

Turn the automation off and see what happens. Check the tracks output routing too.

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

Hi, no change with automation off and the outs are just routed to the stereo buss so I'm still stumped. In edit windo the waveforms are showing where they should be. I just can't figure out why no sound.
thx,
Steve

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

Disable and enable any plugs you may have assigned to those tracks....Like Bomb factory for one!

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

Check your voice assignments too. Sometimes when you reload a session, tracks get different voice assignemtns then they originally had (especially if you moved them after you loaded last time, and then saved.

If two tracks are sharing a voice, that could cause the issue you describe.

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

Some cracked plugins may do that!

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Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

I've also experienced this, and I'm suprised others haven't addressed this already. The track is there just how you left it, no changes, yet no playback. Kind of dumb but here's the solution that works: create another audio track and copy everything from the first track to it, waveforms, plug-ins, and assignments. This doesn't explain why it happens, but it does keep you working. It seems to occur randomly, maybe once or twice a year, working quite alot. Steve

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

I've also experienced this, and I'm suprised others haven't addressed this already. The track is there just how you left it, no changes, yet no playback. Kind of dumb but here's the solution that works: create another audio track and copy everything from the first track to it, waveforms, plug-ins, and assignments. This doesn't explain why it happens, but it does keep you working. It seems to occur randomly, maybe once or twice a year, working quite alot. Also I wanted to add, this doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it's vocal tracks, that just happened to be. Steve

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

This is happening to me. 2 tracks out of 6 produce no sound. No plugs on the tracks. Meters work, the other tracks work. I made a new track and moved my file there. No dice. Checked qll paths, automation I rebooted the computer, Ran Disk Utility in Recovery mode. Files work in Quicktime but not in PT. Ran an anti virus software. I have tried everything but the thing that works.. Thanks for any suggestion.

Macbook pro, Catalina, Protools 12 3.2020 , UA Apollo Duo...

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

Things to check:
1-are the tracks made inactive? Make them inactive and then active.
2-is the track muted or set to Input(the green I button)?
3-is the waveform itself muted(Ctrl+M click on a clip to mute and unmute).
4-is the waveform colored or grey(if grey, see 1 and 3)
5-change the track output to any stereo bus and then back to your main outs(I say stereo bus so you don't lose pan settings)

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

+1.

And if the above doesnt help try creating a new session and import your tracks into the new session.
You might have to import one track at a time to see where the problem is.

This might also be caused by some buggy plugins as somebody already mentioned. So try removing any plugins you have on the track.

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

Indeed, it was suggested to bypass all plugins but did you actually try that? If Melodyne is on the tracks, open the Melodyne plugin(s) and see if the blobs are orange(good) or grey(missing).

Re: some of my vocal audio tracks not playing back...help
 

What is that? PT12.x or PT2020.3? If the former, you need to upgrade to current version, if the latter, it should work on Catalina.