Hey Chris. thanks for this. i'll go and give the i o set up thing a go again. i thought i did this correctly, how ever i did not hit default on the bus. so i'll give this a run, and see how i go. By the way, i'm using tools 11 steve . On 11 Jul 2014, at 10:54 pm, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK Steve, let's do a couple of things. > > First of all, let's make sure that your I/O settings are indeed set > correctly. I'm not doubting you that you did nothing, so please know that > upfront, but it may be worth us looking at. > > So bring up PT, but don't have a session opened, preferably, if you can help > it. > > Now, go to your menu bar with vo+M and over to the setup menu. In here, go > to I/O. > > Now, not knowing what version of PT you're using, it's going to be slightly > more tricky to trouble shoot this, but I'll give it a go anyway. I'll start > by saying the same thing I'd say to anyone on list. We're working with I O > settings, and therefore, this can potentially make your audio completely stop > working in PT if you do things wrong, so firstly, do exactly as I say, and B, > know that you follow these directions at your own risk. They should be safe > for the most part as we're not gonna be doing anything in here too > distructive, and if you follow me to a T, you should be fine, but just out of > the rare chance you're not, I have to CMA. > > OK, so in here, move to the input tab, and hit vo+command+F5 to select it. > I'm not sure how your function keys are set up. You might have to do > fn+vo+command+F5. The point is, you wanna route your mouse to your Voiceover > cursor. Once done, hit vo+shift+space to click the input tab. > > Now, we want to select all paths. This isn't going to speak well, I promise > you, so you're just gonna have to do it, and hear me out, trusting with faith > that it's working. Press command+A to select all. > > Now, move down to the bottom of the window for convenience sake, then vo+left > arrow until you find the delete paths button. It might just say delete, I > don't recall the exact wording, but it'll be obvious. command+vo+F5, or > whatever on it to route your mouse, then vo+shift+space to click it. You > probably could just do vo+space, but I don't wanna chance it. > > Now, find the default button. Route your mouse, and click it with > vo+shift+space. > > By the way Steve, if you don't see a delete button or a delete paths button, > then skip that step and see if you see a default button. If so click it. If > you don't see either, then, I don't know what to say, aside maybe reinstall > the drivers for your interface. > > Anyway, next, we want to do exactly the same thing but this time, in the > output tab. So go up to the top, click the output tab, just like we did the > input tab. Now, hit command+A again to select all paths. Go down and hit > delete if you can, then hit default. > > Finally, do it one more time on the bus tab. > > Then go down and click OK. > > Now, go to the setup menu, and then go to the playback engine. Make sure > your interface is still correctly selected. If not, set it. > > Then close and reopen ProTools, even if not prompted to do so, just to be on > the safe side. > > See if that fixes it. > > If not, someone else is gonna have to chime in. Before anyone else says, > Whoa! Chris! Dude! That's w'w'w'w'w'wayyyyy! overkill, maybe it was, but > it's how I know to fix this problem when it occured for me a few times, and 9 > outta 10 times, this fixed the issue. So, if I'm telling him something that > over complicates things, I'm sorry, but realize I'm just genuinely trying to > help. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sparrow" <i...@sparrowsound.com.au> > To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 8:33 AM > Subject: Re: recording issue with pt > > > hi again, i did not copy this message from pro tools correctly. the message > is this. > the track can not be enabled because it does not have open active input and > output assigned. > this did not happen the other day when i started playing around with it. so i > must be missing something. > I have gone in to the set up window, and looked in the play back engine, and > the motu is selected. but i've not made any recordings yet, and don't have > any projects created with tools to prove the motu is working properly with > pro tools. > Steve > On 11 Jul 2014, at 9:10 pm, Steve Sparrow <i...@sparrowsound.com.au> wrote: > >> Hi. having a recording issue with pt. >> when i hit the record enable button a track, i'm getting a message saying >> the track can not be enabled because active input and output have not been >> assigned. >> now, here is what i have set up. I have the track selected. on the input i >> have gone to the interface, and selected analogue 1 from my motu 869. the >> output is assigned to main out 1 and 2 on the motu. from what i can see, >> i've set up the i.o. so not sure what this message means. Is there something >> else i need to set up. >> cheers Steve >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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