If you use multiple computers for Avid Pro Tools, or collaborate with other Pro Tools users who have their own Pro Tools systems, it’s inevitable that you’ll want to exchange sessions between the multiple systems. Pro Tools 12 includes enhancements that help keep your outputs mapped to the right destinations.
First, use the monitor path. The monitor path is the main output that should always be heard. If a bus was assigned to the monitor path on System A, it will automatically map itself to the monitor path of System B. It doesn’t matter if the name or format of the output is different. It will still map.
Related to this, a Pro Tools session will remember if it has been on a system before. So if a mapping fails, and you fix it, that session will always open correctly from then on. This holds true even if your session is opened on several other systems. But be aware that you delete outputs and recreate them, then the session won’t have knowledge of them anymore. It’s fine to rename an output, but if you delete and recreate it, the memory will be lost. This is because outputs contain hidden IDs, and newly created outputs have new IDs. But, if you save a copy of your I/O by exporting it as a .PIO file, the original outputs can be restored.
