Hello Im trying to open my pro tools 9 but its asking me for the iLok and I dont have one, what I can do to open my pro tools without the iLok can some body help me with that plisss.

Avid Knowledge Base Pro Tools Product Activation Pro Tools Product Activation Last Updated: May 4, 2017 Products Affected: Thank you for purchasing an Avid product. Each step below contains a short video with tutorial information that will walk you through creating your iLok.com and Avid.com accounts, using the iLok License Manager to manage your iLoks and licenses, and downloading and installing your Avid software. If you'd like to bookmark the videos to view at a later time, go to the on the. Create an iLok Account Visit and sign up for a free account.

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Activate your Software Visit to enter the Activation Code provided on the back of the Avid Activation Card that came with your software purchase (you will first need to log in to your Avid Master Account). If you made your purchase online at the, this process is not necessary and your software is automatically activated during the final steps of the purchase process (go to My Products and Subscriptions and click on your 'Annual Upgrade Plan' product then select your previous product to complete your upgrade). You will need to enter your (created in Step 1 of this guide) during both Activation and online purchase.

Pro Tools First is a free version of Pro Tools available to everyone – coming soon. It includes a subset of Pro Tools features primarily aimed at musicians and audio enthusiasts that are new to Pro Tools, but it’s a lot deeper than that, so let’s take a look at what a free version of Pro Tools is really all about. The big questions are why Avid is making a version of Pro Tools available to everyone for free, how does it compare with other versions of Pro Tools, and in reality what can and can’t you do with it creatively. Available to everyone for free.

The idea of a free version of Pro Tools is not new, Avid released Pro Tools Free in 2000 with 8 audio tracks, to allow users not familiar with Pro Tools to check out a reduced feature set version of the software. And the current version of Pro Tools software is available for free 30-day trial but requires an iLok to run it. So what’s different about Pro Tools First?

These are the three main reasons why Pro Tools First came into being: Learn the art of media creation—The same music creation and audio production tools used by the top pros and facilities in the world is now available as a freemium application, enabling artists to create great sounding music tracks and giving aspiring audio professionals a means to learn the same tools as the pros. Try Pro Tools for free—Pro Tools First will enable anyone to check out Pro Tools for free without the need for an iLok. Avid Cloud Collaboration for Pro Tools—With Avid Cloud Collaboration coming soon to Pro Tools, Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools First, artists, producers and engineers will be able to connect and work together as if they were in the same room. There are simplified preferences, there is no score editor or video playback in the timeline, and the timeline does not include SMPTE. Pat Martino Desperado Rare there. The mix and edit window and the MIDI window pane are included and it supports up to up to 96kHz (hardware dependent), ASIO/Core Audio and Mac/Windows.

It includes Elastic Time and Elastic Pitch but not Beat Detective. In summary there are some features missing compared with Pro Tools software but for many beginners, or those new to Pro Tools this will not be an issue. Projects Pro Tools First only saves projects to the cloud in your Avid Master Account and three are included free. You log in to access and work on your projects but you can work offline when not logged in or if there is no internet, on the last project you saved to the Cloud from a local cache within the application. Once you log back in, the changes made get synced up to your cloud projects. Avid will offer additional Pro Tools First projects to purchase from the Avid Marketplace in the near future.

You can also complete a project and export the final stereo mix and then delete that project to give you back the space needed to start a new project. You cannot import or export Pro Tools sessions, but with cloud collaboration, when it comes, you will be able to collaborate on your friend’s projects.

You can import and export audio files with Pro Tools First. Plug-ins A core set of 21 Avid professional plug-ins are part of the Pro Tools First install and they do not require an iLok: Click II, D-Verb, DC Offset Removal, Dither, Dynamics III Compressor/Limiter, Dynamics III De-Esser, Dynamics III Expander/Gate, EQ III 1-Band, EQ III 7-Band, Gain, Invert, Mod Delay III, Normalize, POW-r Dither, Reverse, Rewire, Signal Generator, Time Adjuster, Time Shift, and Trim. Of these, the bread and butter plug-ins are EQ III, Dynamics III, Mod Delay II and D-Verb, a versatile reverb. If you don’t know Mod Delay III, it is a mono/stereo multi-tap delay line for delay, echo, flanger and phaser effects. All the plug-ins have easy to use presets. Xpand!2 is the perfect virtual instrument for starting the music creation process with over 2,500 presets including acoustic pianos, strings, percussion, brass, and woodwind instruments, to electronic synthesizers, pads, guitars, drums, synth basses, loops, ambient sounds, effects, and more. Get Xpand!2 and Graphic EQ Plug-ins for free When you download Pro Tools First get.

In Pro Tools First go to the to menu Marketplace>Plug-Ins You can also get the free. Plug-ins and New First Plug-in Bundles A new feature for Pro Tools and included with Pro Tools First is the ability to do in-app purchasing from the Avid Marketplace.

Only plug-ins purchased through the Avid Marketplace with your Avid Master Account will work with Pro Tools First. All other plug-ins will remain hidden and unavailable at launch.

Pro Tools First supports AAX Native 64 and AAX AudioSuite 64 plug-ins purchased from within the in-app Marketplace. Check the description/specs in the Avid Marketplace to confirm if an iLok is required. Plug-in bundles which include ‘First’ in the name are specifically designed for use with Pro Tools First and do not require an iLok.

These plug-ins should download and automatically install, without needing to re-launch Pro Tools. ILok protected plug-ins purchased from the in-app Marketplace will work with Pro Tools First providing you have an iLok. 4 new, low cost creative plug-in bundles, designed for Pro Tools First users, are available on the Avid Marketplace with more coming soon. These bundles include some of the Avid core plug-ins not included with Pro Tools First, such as the Avid Channel Strip, and selections from the new Eleven Effects Bundle which is a bundle that will be available for all Pro Tools users that includes 17 plug-ins modeled after analog stomp box guitar, bass and studio effects.

Avid Cloud Collaboration and Pro Tools First. Pro Tools First will be compatible with Cloud Collaboration coming soon, meaning that anyone who wants to participate in a Pro Tools Cloud Collaboration projects can do so for free. One of the reasons behind launching Pro Tools First is that it will allow anyone to download the app and participate in the new Cloud Collaboration features with other Pro Tools First/Pro Tools/Pro Tools HD users, making it possible to play and write music with your friends and colleagues wherever they are in the world even if you have never used Pro Tools before or if you are using another DAW. For college level students is more suitable as it exactly matches the feature set used by the pros, is required for certification, and is now available for as little as $99 per year.

Also, since Pro Tools First shares most of the same features as Pro Tools, there is a wealth of online ‘how to’ video resources that musicians and audio editors, new to the world of recording and/or Pro Tools, can access to help them get the most out of the Pro Tools First experience and ultimately produce great sounding songs and tracks that stand out from the crowd. Once you have learned Pro Tools First moving up to Pro Tools is easy as workflows and the creative process is basically the same. The full version of Pro Tools allows for more tracks and features, the scoring editor, more included plug-ins, and video in the timeline as well as the ability to save sessions to the local drive. Pro Tools First users can check out the differences by buying an iLok and. The avid creates Pro Tools 12, knowing that many professionals will take sound the same in Pro Tools First. Pro Tools 12 should be free, why not use having so many plug-ins in Pro Tools 12 if one does not know how to work. We compare well: A professional using Pro Tools First and a beginner using Pro Tools 12!

Who knows making better sound with more quality? I’m sure even the professionals, will take a better sound in Pro Tools First of the new to Pro Tools 12 I bought 3 years ago Pro Tools 10, but when I saw the Avid Pro Tools launching a First for free. I vendir my Pro Tools 10 immediately. I think it should all buy Pro Tools, have all the upgrad and update. Knowing that Avid will not sell both Pro Tools 12, comparing with free downloads of Pro Tools First. In short few people will buy Pro Tools 12!

And if it was a case of repentance of avid, released a free program, is good immediately release this Pro Tools First. Because I sold my Pro Tools 10 and I am no program to record, I and the world is waiting Pro Tools First. Manitoba Entrepreneur Immigration Programmes. So let so much delay and then release this download. WE WANT THE FIRST PRO TOOLS NOW!!!!

Andrew Wild is offering us the world on a plate [for which I am sure we will all be truly thankful. For ever and ever. (Amen)], so he needs some peace and quiet whilst he finishes saying grace. I only heard the good news dinner bell today, so I will surely endure a shorter wait than others below.

I look forward to Pro Tools First and to Cloud Collaboration etc., not least because of what * happened after I tried uploading some on-the-fly solo piano and violin recordings to Soundcloud a year ago using a Cubase LE 30-day trial [a bit of a disappointing trial as I was often clicking on menu features which were blocked – i.e. What you see is not what you get (whereas Pro Tools First will not contain a bucket-load of de-activated teasers – it seems)].

* someone left a message on my soundcloud asking if he could lift a sample. Those who have watched the Avid videos and read what we have been asked to read in advance of receiving the download will surely appreciate the commercial opportunities that await the lucky few who, as advised by Noah, make the best of what is made available to us, and get noticed. It would be nice to be noticed (for all the right reasons) – I have a short track in the Oscars section of “The Bodyguard”, but no one (except collection societies, my publisher and me) notices it because Whitney is effing and blinding over it from start to finish. These are exciting times, and what we are now looking forward to seems to me to be a far cry from the usual run-of-the-mill entry-level download. My advice, for what it’s worth, is to do as we have been advised by Andrew Wild et al – sign up, read up and be ready to hit the ground running.

Best wishes to all. Anyone received the download yet? @disqus_SxZaXTqj2q:disqus With all due respect, you posted the exact same comment numerous times. It does not benefit the Avid Blogs community to have to wade through the same comment over and over again.

You’ve made a very valid request regarding Clip Gain in Pro Tools First and I appreciate you sharing your feedback here. However, this isn’t a product feature request forum. We’ll have new product feature request channels open when Pro Tools First fully launches into the world. In the meantime, enjoy the articles here and stay passionate!

The same for me, took months registered with its pre- publication form firts pro -tools. Once they published the version I register with your form to receive download links and I’m still waiting. I just received the mail registration confirmation and no notification more And friends and acquaintances who have also been recorded have not received news that link. Is this version is real or a marketing campaign to collect email addresses of users? So I wait for Christmas to receive the download link, this will be a good Christmas gift (: P) •. Dear Adam, I’ve received a ton of practically spam emails from Avid (I’m not going to visit Avid events because I don’t live in the USA) but there was no download link.

I’m waiting for MONTHS without any result. Ok, I can understand that you should test software, remove code mistakes, etc, etc. I can understand that. But why you announced Pro Tools First release so early then? Another “smart” move from your marketing department? I don’t know?

Maybe you’re waiting for Windows 10 release? Unfortunately, all we have to do is to sit quietly and wait for the release day. C’est voila, as they say in France.

Pro Tools First? They should have named it “Pro Tools Last”.Because honestly it is the last thing from Avid you will ever want to use, it’s that bad so far.Downloaded 2 days ago and have yet to get it to work. First off, “Pro Tools Not Responding” ( maybe that would be a better name for it).cause that seems to be the majority of it’s function so far. Expand2 is supposed to be included but when PTF is actually running it says it is not available and asks if you want to go to store to purchase itthere’s another problem, the store will not load so therefor you cannot get Expand2. Cannot hype enough at how disappointed i am with this POS.