Spotting to a track in ProTools is quite a delicate affair. They haven’t updated their API since the late 1990’s…!
- Make sure your DAW menu at the top of the screen says ProTools
- You can’t spot onto an elastic track
- ProTools can’t have any windows in front(like a task window, or workspace, or anything else… Best to just have the Edit window have focus.
- ProTools and Soundminer have to be on the same “desktop”. Apple has Spaces to implement virtual desktops, but if you put ProTools on a different “desktop” than Soundminer, the spot command won’t work.
- ProTools has no way of accepting a bitmask of channels. So if you want to reference original and just spot in 1 channel of a polyphonic file, i’m afraid this isn’t possible. You can pre split your audio files to multi-mono or use copy/convert to extract the channel.
- The first time you try to spot from Soundminer to a newish macOS, if you accidentally hit DENY spotting will stop working. To re-enable it you have to go to System Preferences, Security & Privacy, then Automation and allow Soundminer to go to ProTools.
- If you have turned SIP(Software Integrity protection off), then the prompt to add SM to automation won’t happen, and spot to track won’t work. Re-Enable SIP and try to spot a sound until the prompt comes up.