[Brian Hudson]

I have identical issue, hit the play key get a swirly beach ball for about a second then plays, play cursor freezes whilst audio unaltered, all same if capture a midi note. I'm on Mac OS Mojave 10.14.5 and on ProTools 20.19.0. My sense tells me this may have something to do with authentication with ILok cloud process and has nothing to do with Mac OS or ProTools, time will tell and I hope soon