For Avid Pro Tools, where are the instrument plugins located?

[Phoenix]

Could you please let me know where the instrument plugins are located in Avid Pro Tools?

 

[LunarEclipse123]

Perhaps this might not be a helpful answer, but they're located wherever you installed them.

 

[QuantumMemeLord]

Read the manual.

 

[Shower Grapes]

On a Apple MacOS: Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Avid > Audio > Plug-Ins (AAX)

 

[Reasonably Badass]

Are you asking how you locate them in Pro Tools or where they reside on your hard drive?

 

[Dr. CapsLock]

Open a stereo instrument track, inserts, plugins, instruments.

 

[Jessica was here]

Stereo instruments track!

 

[Euphoric Wolf]

Sorry to interrupt the thread but my PT isn't scanning plugins.

 

[Jessica was here]

Sorry to interrupt the thread but my PT isn't scanning plugins.

Did you recently upgrade anything?

 

[Congo Dust]

Trash your preferences and restart Pro Tools.

 

[Fuego]

Verify in the plugin manager if they are there, installed and authorized; like Waves Central.

 

[Tarini Khan]

Are the plug-ins in the correct folder?

Did you also install the AAX (Avid Audio Extension) plugin format versions?

 

[Euphoric Wolf]

Are the plug-ins in the correct folder?

Did you also install the AAX (Avid Audio Extension) plugin format versions?

Oh, Pro Tools takes AAX (Avid Audio Extension) plugin format versions only?

 

[Jessica was here]

Oh, Pro Tools takes AAX (Avid Audio Extension) plugin format versions only?

Yes!

 

[QuantumMemeLord]

Oh, Pro Tools takes AAX (Avid Audio Extension) plugin format versions only?

Some of these questions, lmao.

Y'all can't really be serious.

 

[Jessica was here]

Some of these questions, lmao.

Y'all can't really be serious.

Give people a chance to learn there is nothing wrong with asking questions.

 

[LeadDiscovery]

After installing some audio software plugins, I am now getting this error message upon launching Pro Tools that says: "AAE error -9178 was encountered", and after this dialog, Pro Tools shuts down. Does anyone have any insight to fix this?

 

[Tarini Khan]

After installing some audio software plugins, I am now getting this error message upon launching Pro Tools that says: "AAE error -9178 was encountered", and after this dialog, Pro Tools shuts down. Does anyone have any insight to fix this?

The first thing I would do is remove the recently installed plugins from the plugins folder put them in an unused folder and check if Pro Tools launches okay. If it does then add them back in, i.e., a few at a time until something goes wrong then leave out the culprit or see if there is a version compatible with your current operating system and Pro Tools version.

 

[LovinglyBlushing]

Pro Tools users who use on Mac, what's your guys' opinion on the Apple MacBooks? Are the ARM-based system M3 chips fantastic? What spec recommendations for recording and mixing?

 

[RetroCinema]

Pro Tools users who use on Mac, what's your guys' opinion on the Apple MacBooks? Are the ARM-based system M3 chips fantastic? What spec recommendations for recording and mixing?

M2 and M3 chips aren't as good for Pro Tools as M1 chips, they use different cores. But M1 has more processing that works with Pro Tools, perhaps that will change with time I guess.