Pro Tools Sound Designer File

Using a modern Pro Tools setup (on either Mac or Windows) you might run into problems opening sessions created in the 90's to early 2000's (PT1 to PT 5) on Mac System 7.x, 8.x, and OS 9.x, OSX 10.0.x - 10.4.x which may report missing audio files. Even after searching and locating the files on the hard drive, Pro Tools will often still be unable to bring them into the session. This is an issue with the Sound Designer 2 (aka SD2 or SDII) file format, and often occurs when project files and folders are moved from one machine to another, backed-up, or opened on a different platform than the one the files were originally created on (such as moving from Mac to PC). SDII files can easily loose their resource fork which is a kind of meta data that contains the bit rate and sample rate. PT 10 was the last version to work with SD2 files but the on-board re-linking and converting to .wav files does not even work right. Deep Signal Studios can resolve these issues and repair Pro Tools files in situations where SD2 files can not be played in the session file. We can also convert Pro Tools sessions made in 10 or 11 to PT7, PT8, or PT9 session. In addition to repairing and restoring Pro Tools files, we can convert your Pro Tools projects to other DAW formats including Digital Performer, Cubase, Ableton, Garage Band, or any other DAW or sequencer file format you wish. We can retrieve sessions from Jaz, Zip, and DDS tapes.

Pro Tools 2 Over the years, Pro Tools has released many versions of the software, ranging from HD (aimed at the professional market) and more basic versions like Pro Tools SE and LE. In 1995, AVID acquired the Digidesign and over the years, Pro Tools has gone through many changes, including dropping TDM and then RTAS plugin support formats, introducing the AAX format in Pro Tools 11, and also changing the native audio file format from SDII to WAV while AIFF is still an option.

Pro Tools 11 Pro Tools, originally named "Sound Tools" was first launched in 1989. At that stage it was a basic audio editor for stereo files. After further enhancement, a new version of the program was developed and renamed Pro Tools, which offered 4 tracks of digital audio recording. Digidesign continued to enhancement the Pro Tools software, added a MIDI sequencer and multitrack recording at 16-bit / 44.1 KHz. By 1997, Pro Tools reached 24-bit, with support of up to 48 tracks. Since the late 1990's Pro Tools has become the industry standard for disk-based digital audio recording. Pro Tools files or OSX and Windows can be identified by the file extensions .PTS, .PTF, and .PTX. Pro Tools on Mac System 7.x, 8.x, and OS 9.x have no file extension. Pro Tools 11