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Pro Tools 2021.10 - Complete List Of Bug Fixes

Julian Rodgers

With each release of Pro Tools Avid squashes another raft of bugs in Pro Tools. In this article, we list out all the bug fixes that come with the Pro Tools 2021.10 release.


Automation

  • Fixed a case that could cause a jump in automation writing when in Touch mode if AutoMatch Time and AutoGlide Time are not set to 0 (PT-271244)

Cloud / Collaboration

  • Fixed a bug in the Artist Chat window where Shift+left/right arrow do not highlight printed text (PT-275442)

  • Fixed a bug in the Artist Chat window where a Shift+capital K opened the MIDI keyboard (PT-273582)

Control Surfaces

  • Fixed a case that could cause the "Sel" button to latch on EUCON control surfaces (PT-278583)

  • "Write on Stop" automation commands no longer operate in reverse (Latching vs Non Latching) (PT-279179)

  • S6 Post Module tracks will no longer be offset when “Exclude Inactive Tracks” is enabled (PT-279044)

  • "Legacy Ethernet Controllers" and "EUCON" can no longer be enabled together in the peripherals tab (PT-229691)

Crashes & Errors

  • Fixed a crash that may occur when bouncing with HDX hardware (PT-276246)

  • Defaulting I/O setup when using an Pro Tools | HD MADI with HDX will no longer cause a crash (PT-275875)

  • Defaulting I/O setup, with the "Use Dolby Atmos Renderer" option, will no longer cause a crash (PT-275872)

  • Pro Tools will no longer crash when opening the Bounce Mix window if non-ASCII characters are contained within the application file path (PT-273667)

  • Fixed a Crash caused by dragging hardware inserts (PT-276202)

  • Fixed an intermittent crash when scanning for Ethernet Control Surfaces on Windows (PT-279212)

  • Fixed a crash that may occur when creating a new project (PT-279011)

  • Fixed an issue that would cause the video engine to crash in certain situations. The cause of the crash was found and fixed based on crash report submissions by users. Thank you! (UME-1646)


Delay Compensation

  • The output of a plugin with an active side chain input that is inserted after a Hardware Insert is now properly delay compensated (HDX Hybrid Engine, Pro Tools | Carbon) (PT-273557)

  • Fixed a case where using QuickPunch to record from an Aux Input track to an Audio track with cascaded busses was misaligned (HDX Hybrid Engine, Pro Tools | Carbon) (PT-274489)

  • Audio recorded from an Aux Input track to an Audio track is now properly delay compensated (HDX Hybrid Engine, Pro Tools | Carbon) (PT-274488, PT-274617)

  • Fixed a case where using TrackPunch/DestructivePunch Mode to record audio from an Aux Input track to an Audio track was not properly delay compensated (HDX) (PT-274486, PT-274487)

  • Native plugins are in now correctly in the Low Latency domain when Input monitoring is enabled (HDX Hybrid Engine, Pro Tools | Carbon) (PT-269154)

  • Re-recording to another track in QuickPunch Mode is no longer early when the source track input is set to a hardware input and Auto Low Latency Off (Blue Mode) (PT-274480)

  • Cascaded tracks are now properly delay compensated when recording from a separate source machine (HDX) (PT-220723)

Editing

  • Grid mode will no longer prevent a 1 frame selection if the session frame rate is set to something higher than 100 fps and then back to something lower (PT-270404)

  • Fixed an error which can occur while scrubbing (PT-275855)

  • Fixed an issue where clips disappeared when moved on the timeline while Insertion Follows Playback is enabled (PT-275768)

  • Fixed a graphics issue where clips disappeared when using "Snap Clip Start To Play Position" command (PT-274774)

  • Identify Beat can now be used to change the start of the session to a lower bar number (PT-274213)

  • The song position start is now correctly prevented from being moved to before the start of timeline (PT-272317)

  • Fixed a crash which can occur when nudging the contents of a clip (Control/Win + "-" (minus key on numeric pad)) (PT-234392)

  • Tab to Transients continues to work on MIDI/Instrument tracks after operations that involve showing or hiding MIDI CC lanes (PT-237194)

  • "Move Song Start" earlier can once again correctly move sample based tracks (PT-241433)

  • Deleting a selection across all tracks in Shuffle mode once again applies correctly to all tracks (PT-272213)

Export/Bounce

  • AAC Bit Rate setting is now restored between bounces to MOV (PT-277253)

Hybrid Engine

  • Unvoiced DSP tracks due to out-of-streams with instantiated DSP plugin or Hardware insert are now properly voiced after disabling DSP Mode (HDX Hybrid Engine, Pro Tools | Carbon) (PT-273808)

Folder Tracks

  • Timeline navigation shortcuts such as Tab to Transients now work on Routing Folders in Automation view. Previously they only worked in Overview view. (PT-261610)

Import

  • Fixed a sample rate conversion bug affecting Pull Up/Pull Down when importing Audio (PT-273515)

  • Fixed an issue that would cause some MP3 files to be truncated upon import (PT-274724)

Installer

  • Fixed an issue that would cause the HD driver to intermittently not be recognized after a driver update on macOS (PT-276166)

  • Sync X and Sync HD firmware folders are now in the correct location on Windows (PT-274471)

  • Track Presets are now available on a non-admin account (PT-276097)

  • The HD driver installer, on Windows, will once again properly update the driver version when run on top of a previous version (PT-268735)

  • Fixed an issue that caused the HD Driver not to initialize on macOS after installing on top of a previous version (PT-276166)

Performance

  • Pro Tools no longer hangs for a few seconds when enabling/disabling HDX Hybrid Engine in the Playback Engine dialog (HDX) (PT-269154)

  • Enabling DSP Mode for a large number of tracks now occurs more quickly (HDX Hybrid Engine) (PT-268913)

  • Dynamic Plug-in Processing is once again functions correctly (PT-275441)

  • Fixed an issue which caused seemingly random but frequent short hangs when performing basic operations (PT-275568)

  • Auto-backups will now wait until the transport is idle for 1 second. This helps avoid the transport functionality being unavailable in large sessions, directly after stopping the transport (PT-271587)

  • MIDI playback is no longer severely interrupted when instantiating certain plug-ins (PT-273955)

  • Fixed one scenario which was causing many seemingly random -9093 errors on macOS Catalina and above (PT-272592)

  • Importing Session Data from very large sessions is now much faster (PT-278735)

Playlists

  • Fixed an issue where Save Copy In could cause an alternate playlist to be related to the wrong track (PT-276434)

  • Save Copy In will now remember the targeted playlist (PT-277813)

Plug-ins

  • Multi-channel plug-ins are no longer removed when changing the track to a larger width if they don’t support that width. They are changed to multi-mono instead (PT-274460)

Pro Tools | Carbon

  • Fixed a case where a feedback loop could occur when tracks with Hardware Inserts are bussed to each other (PT-277666)

  • Fixed a case where the "You haven't assigned outputs for a new output path" dialog would incorrectly appear after exiting I/O Setup (PT-275809)

  • Enabling 48Vr on an input channel (or linked input pair) no longer disengages 48V on other linked input pairs (PT-275807)

  • Avid logo and Power button are now properly illuminated (PT-275223)

  • Enabling DIM no longer causes LEDs to illuminate temporarily on the stereo meter (PT-274623)

  • Fixed cases where Hardware Setup settings would not match the actual Carbon device settings (PT-274391)

  • Sample rates are now properly updated in Audio Midi Setup after resetting Carbon (PT-274374)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a session at a different sample rate from the opened session (PT-273815)

  • Resolved a performance issue that could occur when selecting the 28x28 AVB configuration from Audio MIDI Setup (PT-273558)

  • Fixed a case where AVB streaming would be inactive with M1 Mac mini and Big Sur (PT-272374)

  • Fixed and intermittent crash that would occur when recording while in Quick Punch and DSP Mode (PT-278872/PT-278690)

Recording

  • Fixed a Destructive Punch bug where File Mod dates were not refreshed after the first punch (PT-273981)

Routing & I/O Setup

  • It is now possible to audition Ambisonics audio as a mono signal (PT-277504)

  • Ambisonics audio is no longer silent when routed to a mono track (PT-277064)

  • It is now possible to assign a track output or send directly to a track that has a hardware input assigned. The hardware input will be replaced with a bus (PT-276787)

  • All Sends from a track become silent after the inactivation of one Send during playback (PT-268739)

  • Sub-paths are no longer created when a bus is automatically created due to routing assignments (PT-278796)

  • It is no longer possible to route a track to itself when assigning directly to a "track" from an output or send (PT-274285)

Synchronization

  • Fixed a case with Sync X where the error dialog for mismatched Video Reference rates was not shown (PT-276953)

  • With Clock Master set to Sync X or Sync HD, opening certain sessions no longer causes the Clock Master setting to switch to the first HD interface (PT-275563)

  • When opening a session created without Sync X or Sync HD enabled, the Video Ref Format setting is now correctly preserved (PT-275561)

  • When Sync X in is generating Video Reference and Word Clock, "The SYNC video reference is not present..." dialog is no longer incorrectly shown when putting Satellites online the first time (PT-274105)

UI

  • Selected, muted MIDI notes will correctly remain highlighted when zoomed out (PT-277796)

  • Imported presets are now correctly added to the preset list even when there is a naming conflict (PT-277765)

  • The active preset will now be correctly italicized when the UI Theme is switched (PT-277764)

  • Disallowed menu items are not grayed out after a locked Color Palette preset is selected (PT-277109)

  • The shortcut to select the previous/next preset in the Color Palette has been changed to Control+Left/Right Arrow keys (PT-277107)

  • The visibility of the background pattern denoting black and white keys on MIDI and Instrument tracks when using the Dark theme has been improved (PT-276994)

  • Fixed a graphics issue where objects in the Edit window track header area failed to be drawn (Big Sur) (PT-276011)

  • Fixed a graphics issue where the Playlist Selector button failed to be drawn after a Delete Unused Playlist operation (Big Sur + Dark theme) (PT-275637)

  • Fixed some graphics issues where black rectangles would appear in the UI after zooming (Big Sur) (PT-274467)

  • MIDI notes now remain visible when inside an edit selection on frozen tracks (Dark theme) (PT-274126)

  • Many keyboard shortcuts will now function when the Color Palette is the foremost window (PT-273655)

  • Improved the text legibility of the Atmos Object Selector in the Output Window when the Bus/Object Toggle is set to Object (PT-271769)

  • Improved the visibility of muted MIDI notes in certain colors (Dark theme) (PT-270682)

  • The Home, End, and Page Up/Down keys continue to function after locating to any given footage using "*" on the keypad (PT-269249)

  • Clips on a track are once again visible while the track is being reordered in the Edit Window (PT-277503)

  • "Delete Unused Playlists" once again displays unused playlists after switching to Classic theme (PT-275283)

  • Fixed some cases where black rectangles appear when zooming and scrolling the Edit window on Big Sur (PT-275675)

Video

  • Bounce Mix to MOV will now perform a quick Same as Source bounce when selecting a single clip on the timeline, when others on the timeline don't have a matching raster size or aspect ratio (UME-1643)

  • Bouncing with "Pad to Frame Boundary" checked will now only include audio within the selection. Any padding will be done as silence, instead of the previous audio (PT-274457)

  • Fixed an issue that would prevent the video engine from initializing on an OS that is set to a non-English language (PT-276689)

  • Fixed an issue that would cause the video engine to crash if a session was saved in a non-English language (PT-276110)

  • Bounce Mix to MOV will now prevent the Same as Source option when selecting multiple clips on the timeline that contain a different raster size or aspect ratio (PT-274998)

  • Video clips will remain on the timeline as offline, instead of disappearing, if media could not be found upon session open (PT-274536)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where clips would be removed before the end of the session because Pro Tools claimed they were beyond the session length. This was due to a tempo map (PT-273477)

  • The correct tracks are now displayed when recalling Memory Locations that were saved while a track was in Playlists view. Note that current design limitations do not allow the show/hide states of playlists from being saved in the Memory Locations. (PT-202145)

  • Moving the Song Start marker while holding down control/shift no longer results in an error (PT-274357)

  • Pro Tools software will now properly indicate if tracks are dropped upon session open due to unsupported track widths (PT-278994)

  • Markers made with keyboard shortcuts are no longer placed early (PT-268226)

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