pulling my hair out! i/o and hardware setup keep changing.

[regis]

i have had this problem for years and can't figure it out. my studio setup is fairly complex with lots of analog and digital i/o going on. so it takes me a little while to set up the i/o and hardware setup the way i want it. but when i create a new session, or even load up an extisting session that has already been 'set up' properly, it goes back to some weird default setting and i have to re-do the hardware setup and i/o over and over again. for instance, it keeps defaulting to AES/EBU for the 192's internal digital i/o, even though i keep setting it to SPDIF. it might stay on SPDIF for a session or two but eventually the whole thing gets 'reset' or maybe part of it does. and that's regardless of whether or not i crash. i have tried everything, including making a 'default' i/o setup in the digidesign i/o folder, and making all the settings with no session loaded and then quitting and restarting.

please help me. i'm tired of dicking around with these pages. i just want them to remain the same.

cs

[DigiTechSupt]

When you create a session, are you choosing 'Last Used' for the IO Setup field? If so, maybe your 'Last Used' is not the one you want it to be.

One simple fix should be to export the settings you want from the IO Setups window, then create a new session and import them to the new session. Save it, close and, when you create a new session the 'Last Used' should now be correct.

If that doesn't do it, go to the IO Settings folder inside your Pro Tools folder and trash the 'Last Used' - make sure you've exported the settings from IO Setups that you want to keep first. Then go through the same steps above, which will recreate the Last Used file.

[Craig F]

If your location is right, I'll be in Eugene next month if you still need help

[Southwest Studios]

Another thing you can do is export your settings and call them "Default" or "My Studio" or whatever and when you load a session choose this setting. Also, if you load a session and its messed up, all you need to do is clear all the IO and import this setting, takes 2 seconds.

Good Luck

[regis]

If your location is right, I'll be in Eugene next month if you still need help

i live in nashville now, but i will be visiting eugene next month, however i will be on vacation, but thank you for your offer!

i've tried all of the suggestions offered and i'm still stuck. i think the main issue isn't the I/O settings (they do keep changing but it's easy enough to import a saved setting). the main issue is the hardware setup. it keeps reverting back to internal clock, AES/EBU, and the digital 1-8 and 9-16 keep going back to their default AES settings (i use adat setting for one of them). i've narrowed it down to possibly being associated with another bug i recently started having where the file menu becomes frozen and won't work anymore (pro tools itself still functions). i then have to quit pro tools and restart (not force quit), and everything works again, however my hardware setup is back to factory default.

i think i probably need to bite the bullet and update the PT software and mac OS (they are both a few months behind the curve).

cs

[colinweeks]

i've experienced this bug quite a bit as well... it only happens after a protools crash. In my case, i have to always re-tell it that inputs 3+4 of my first 192 should be set for AES rather than analog, etc etc. It always resets to the same state. These hardware settings seem independent of the i/o setup files.

[Top Jimmy]

I can't help diagnose why this might be happening to you, but Jean-Charles Deshaies put together a little app to save and load different hardware setups. This might at least ease your pain a little.

Multi Hardware Setup