Hi all.Hope you are all surviving well.
This is a bit convoluted to follow but I really hope someone can help.
PT2021.3 was working somewhat for me with High Sierra 10.13.6 but with some odd quirky things going on. No need to get into them because High Sierra is not qualified anyway. So yesterday I upgraded to Mojave 10.14.6. That's when my Pro Tools problem started.
The issue I am having is..........if I create an audio track and drag an audio drum loop out of Drumcore 4 onto said track....it will play fine
the first time I audition it......everything working, sounds good in the audio monitors. However.....if I try to listen to that drum track a second time...........
dead silence! No sound. Sound that was there before is now gone.Waveform is there.....no sound.
After much frustrating troubleshooting and trying over and over to fix it....... I noticed
there is no file for the drum track in the Audio Files folder. Completely empty.
If I delete the track and start over.....same thing. New track, drag a loop in...hit play and it plays no problem.......drag in another loop or just go to zero and hit play again.....no audio and no file.
I have tried everything I know. I trashed that session file....closed Pro Tools....trashed prefs, installed the 2021.7 update, opened a new session and tried everything again.....same result.
So then I recorded a short bit of guitar on it's own track to see if I'd get the same result but it worked fine....had a waveform, the audio file was in the folder and it played back properly over and over. (For now)
Thinking it was Drumcore.....I tried another drum software insert/plug in.....same thing....played the first time.....then silence and no audio file in the folder.Guitar track still working though, no problems.
Here's a screenshot of the session being played back...drum loop track 1 and guitar on track 2......you can see the file for the guitar track in the Audio Files folder (for now)and the VU meter is working and I have guitar audio.......
but nothing for the drum track.
But then if that is not enough
.......I just re-opened the session folder again to double check if the guitar file was still there.......and found the
guitar audio file was now gone.......
BUT........the waveform was still in the edit timeline and it still played back
.
So I closed the session....
I definitely hit Save.....then reopened the it and now
BOTH the drum track and the guitar track are completely gone.No tracks, no waveforms no nada. It's like I didn't save it.
I'm losing my mind here! Does anyone have the slightest idea what is going on?