Pro Tools LE 7.4cs9 Update for Windows


March 31, 2009 — Read Me Document (Included with Download)

For 003 Factory, 003 Rack, 003 Rack+, Digi 002, Digi 002 Rack, Mbox 2 Pro, Mbox 2, Mbox 2 Mini, Mbox 2 Micro, and Mbox Systems with Pro Tools LE 7.4 Only
  • Single installer for Windows XP and Vista
  • This update requires previous installation of Pro Tools LE 7.4

Who Should Use This Update?



This update contains fixes in the following areas:
  • Session/File Management
  • Editing
  • QuickTime Video

Plus previous fixes and changes in the following areas:
  • Recording
  • Reason Adapted
  • Importing Audio
  • DigiBase
  • Fade files
  • Automation
  • Modification: Expand to New Tracks by Time Code Only
    • Requires DV Toolkit 2
  • File Comments in WAV files
  • MIDI
  • 003
  • Plug-ins
  • PAL/Mojo
  • User Interface
  • RTAS processing on AMD-based computers
  • Dynamics III
  • Elastic Time
  • Using Soundminer
  • Avid Video Peripherals (Windows XP)
  • Digidesign Control Surfaces:
    • Command|8
    • C|24
    • Control|24
    • 003 Factory (console)
    • Digi 002 (console)

Pro Tools LE 7.4cs9 is provided as an interim "customer support (CS)" release to address the issues described. While our testing has not shown these changes to introduce other problems, this version has not been fully qualified by Digidesign.


What’s Included in Pro Tools LE 7.4cs9 for Windows?



Fixed: Converting sample rate during Save Copy In or Import Session Data adversely affects volume automation (Item #111930)
  • Saving a session copy with sample rate conversion to a rate different from the session's may result in erroneous automation ramps between breakpoints. This is mostly evident in scenarios where a static automation level had been changed over the duration of a single region.

Fixed: Problems moving multiple selected regions (Item #99538)
  • If you selected several adjacent regions, clicking on one of them to move all selected regions will only move the region you clicked on.

Fixed: Incorrect multi-track audio import from QuickTime movies (Item #102279)
  • Multi-track QuickTime movies import into Pro Tools 7.4 with each audio track containing a mix of all tracks, rather than individual tracks.


Included from 7.4cs8:

Fixed: When Recording, Waveform Overviews are Missing or Drawn with Gaps (Item #100862)
  • The audio was not affected, and the waveform could be restored by re-calculating it after the record pass

Fixed: Pro Tools and Reason Crash When Loading "Machine" Patches on Reason Adapted Combinator (Item #106627)
  • Only occurs in Reason Adapted, and does not occur when Reason Adapted is operated without Pro Tools

Fixed: When Importing More than 100 Audio Files, Pro Tools could Close with no Warning (Item #100595)
  • This would occur when importing all of the files at the same time


Included from 7.4cs7:

Fixed: Attempting to Drag and Drop Files Containing iXML metadata from the Workspace Browser Would Result in No Import, and Assertion Errors (Item #100723)
  • The assertion errors would occur when attempting to subsequently save the session
  • Previous workaround was to use File > Import > Audio instead of drag and drop from the Workspace

Fixed: Despite Changing the Fade Shapes in the Fade Dialog, Fade-ins and Fade-outs Always Conformed to the Last Created Fade In and Out (Item #100913)

Fixed: Volume Breakpoints at "- inf" Could Change to Full Volume When Manually Trimming Automation (Item #104551)
  • This could occur when trying to trim the breakpoints down a few dB.


Note: There was no Pro Tools LE 7.4cs6 release

Included from 7.4cs5:

Modified: Expand to New Tracks by Time Code Only (Item # 102582)
Please Note: Time code features in Pro Tools LE require optional purchase of DV Toolkit 2.
Expand To New Tracks By Time Code Only capability lets you expand a track or selected region to new tracks, revealing all other regions recorded at the same time code location, regardless of channel name or number. In previous versions, other metadata needed to match in addition to time code for this feature to work.

Background
This approach is useful when expanding edited guide tracks to original source audio which was recorded while referenced to time code, but channel names or numbers were not written to the audio files. For example, when a live concert is recorded in Pro Tools, then a guide audio track is edited along with the video, then the edited guide track is returned to Pro Tools and needs to be expanded to the original source tracks for mixing.

Additional Information
Please see the "Expand to New Tracks by Time Code Only Read Me" included with the download for important additional information, including:
  • Typical Workflow
  • Relinking the Original Unedited Guide Track
  • Known Limitations with Expand to New Tracks by Time Code


Included from 7.4cs4:

Fixed: The following error is generated when selecting a 256 + comment in the Workspace: "The value contained too many characters; previous value substituted". (Item# 100604)

Fixed: WAV File Metadata Containing Non-English Characters Are Not Visible In Pro Tools 7.4, and Comments Can Be Lost if Edited (Item #100502)
  • Although the file comments are invisible in the DigiBase comments field, clicking in that field will delete all of the comments
  • This only affects non-BWF WAV files
  • This CS version restores the visibility of WAV file comments, as long as the field wasn't clicked in using earlier versions of Pro Tools 7.4

Fixed: Only the First 16 MIDI Inputs Are Available In The MIDI Input Enable Window (Item #76712)
  • Window cannot be resized, scroll bar doesn't access other MIDI inputs


Included from 7.4cs3:

Fixed: When Monitoring All Inputs on 003 Factory, Random Pops and Clicks Could Occur on Inputs 4-8 (Item #101084)
  • Although this is not likely to occur on 003 Rack, this update is recommended for both 003 Factory (console) and 003 Rack

Fixed: Pro Tools Automation Thinning Could Sometimes Remove Non-Redundant Breakpoints (Item #100794)
  • The thinning algorithm could mistakenly classify a breakpoint as redundant

Fixed: Certain Third Party Products Could Cause Pro Tools to crash (Item #100661)
  • Celemony Melodyne and AudioEase Snapper would cause a crash with tick-based regions (introduced in Pro Tools 7.4)

Fixed: Mojo - PAL QuickTime or MXF Movies Could Stutter or Display in Black and White (Item #101047)
  • This resulted from Mojo getting "stuck" in NTSC mode even when Pro Tools was set to PAL


Included from 7.4cs2:

Fixed: Track Color Coding Saturation Was Not Adjustable (Item #94474)
  • Functionality is now the same as in Pro Tools 7.3.x

Fixed: RTAS Processor Selection in Playback Engine Dialog Was Greyed Out With Multi-Processor AMD-based Computers (Item #99545)
  • Note that this condition should only occur when HyperThreading is enabled on Intel-based computers

Fixed: Opening a Session with an RTAS Version of Dynamics III Could Result in a Burst of Noise (Item #99562)
  • This problem was intermittent

Fixed: Quantizing Grouped Elastic Audio Tracks Produces Some Inaccurate Transient Placement (Item #100013)
  • Transients could be placed either before or after grid lines

Fixed: User Can Only Promote the Confidence of an Event Marker by Moving it (Item #100378)
  • Clicking on any Event marker will now raise its internal confidence rating to 100%, thus preventing the marker from being removed when the Event Sensitivity setting is lowered within the Elastic Properties window

Fixed: Using Render or Commit With "Rhythmic" Algorithm Can Produce Artifacts at End of Files (Item #100420)
  • This would usually occur when using extreme amounts of stretching

Fixed: Elastic Time Warp Markers Could Move After Quantizing (Item #100423)
  • Quantizing a selected area could cause markers outside that selection to move

Fixed: Errors Resulting From Importing Certain Files Using Soundminer (Item #100028)
  • File names using an ellipsis (...) would cause the error, "Unable to create a new audio file on drive "xxx" for track "xxx" because I/O error (-36)."

Fixed: Pro Tools May Crash While Setting Up MIDI When Administrator Account Name Contains a Non-English OS and/or a Non-ASCII Character (Item #100142)
  • Known to have occurred with Norwegian, Czech, Japanese and Korean Operating Systems

Fixed: QuickTime Movies Would Cease to Play out Avid Video Peripherals After File Import (Item #100299)
  • This would occur after importing audio files from the Workspace Browser


Included from 7.4cs1:

Fixed: Pro Tools quits unexpectedly when moving a plug-in window while closing it from a control surface (Item #99442)
  • If a plug-in window was closed from a control surface while the plug-in window was being dragged across the screen, Pro Tools would quit unexpectedly.


Installation Instructions


1. Verify Pro Tools LE 7.4 is installed on your system.
2. Quit the Pro Tools application if it is open.
3. Locate the Pro Tools LE 7.4cs9 update installer and launch it.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions.
5. When installation is complete, restart your computer.
If you have installed previous updates, some file versions may not change. This update installs the following files:
  • ProToolsLE.exe (v7.4cs9)
  • FFmt.dll (v7.4cs9)
  • DAE.dll (v7.4cs8)
  • DigiReWire.dpm (v7.4cs8)
  • CFnd.dll (v7.4cs8)
  • DHS_Resource404.dll (v7.4cs5)
  • DHS_Resource411.dll (v7.4cs5)
  • DHS_Resource412.dll (v7.4cs5)
  • DHS_Resource804.dll (v7.4cs5)
  • ProTools_Resource404.dll (v7.4cs5)
  • ProTools_Resource411.dll (v7.4cs5)
  • ProTools_Resource412.dll (v7.4cs5)
  • ProTools_Resource804.dll (v7.4cs5)
  • 003.dll (v7.4cs3)
  • DHS.dll (v7.4cs3)
  • DigiMIDIServices.dll (v7.4cs2)
  • Dynamics III.dpm (v7.4cs2)


Pro Tools LE 7.4cs9 Read Me for Windows — March 31, 2009
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