In Podcast 104 we had a question from Richard Shapiro who asked…

When offline bouncing why is there no warning message if Pro Tools can’t convert an inserted plug-in to native? I recently bounced a 2 hour show and the Oxford Dynamics (compressor only) plug-in got removed from the signal chain because there was no native version. It took a while to figure out why the narration was so buried in the offline bounce but not in a real time bounce. When running large sessions and having freelancers or unfamiliar mixers on a project it can be easily overlooked. Do any of the recent updates address this? I’m surprised I don’t see much about this when reading about offline bounce.

We asked Sonnox and they explained…

The latest version of the AAX plug-ins (AAX Dynamics v2.0.2) will not have this issue. With the addition of Native cut-down variants, the DSP cut-down variants are now able to switch to Native for an offline bounce.

So Richard, update your Sonnox plug-ins and it won’t happen again. Thanks to Sonnox for their speedy response too.