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ProQ4 still messes with Protools
Hey there, I have reported issues with ProQ4 already a while ago.
That was sill on my old 2010 Mac Pro, so I figured maybe something to do with an older system. Now I am on a mini M4, everything runs smooth as butter with Protools HDX, all kinds of plugins including all fab filter plugins.
But the only troublemaker is ProQ4. It somehow messes with the audio engine in a very unpredictable way.
Examples (that only happen as soon as ProQ4 is involved)
-muted tracks somehow play through an FX return (super weird)
-a track at a certain position in the session won´t play audio unless I insert any plugin (also super weird)
-ProQ4 will randomly not react to external side chain signals anymore, although it did just fine when I set up for example spectral ducking
That is super annoying, because I don´t know what it may be messing up somewhere randomly in my session and I may not notice right away. I only dare to use it and immediately commit and get rid of the plugin ASAP.
I suppose it has something to do with the way different instances of ProQ4 can "talk" to each other? Something that spreads further than just the track it is sitting on?
The Plugin is awesome, but I just can´t use it and use ProQ3 instead, which is really a shame since the new version has the cool dynamic tools.
Farbfilter guys: what is going on there? :)
Hi Patrick,
That sounds like some weird issues we have not heard before.. Is this going on in all your session or just specific ones?
First of all, what OS version and PT version are you running? Can you send us a small session in which you have this issue, and send some steps to reproduce. You can send it to info@fabfilter.com.
The instance list actually only accesses the graphical engines of the other plug-ins. It does not directly sound related to me, but who knows..