{"id":1723928,"date":"2022-08-24T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=1723928"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:57:32","slug":"what-do-i-do-if-my-tracks-are-greyed-out-in-pro-tools","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-do-i-do-if-my-tracks-are-greyed-out-in-pro-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I do if my tracks are greyed out in Pro Tools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1731303 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2017\/05\/Pro-Tools-Banner-Medium-300x55.jpg\" alt=\"Pro Tools logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2017\/05\/Pro-Tools-Banner-Medium-300x55.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2017\/05\/Pro-Tools-Banner-Medium-768x140.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2017\/05\/Pro-Tools-Banner-Medium-1024x187.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/media\/2017\/05\/Pro-Tools-Banner-Medium.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Greyed out track in Pro Tools usually means you don&#8217;t have a valid output path assigned. There are a couple of things you can do to correct this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7qT_8WdjZHE&amp;list=PLlczpwSXEOyajPjTOfJQDbMSsym5fOjfB&amp;index=5&amp;hd=1&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verify your Playback Engine<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_lbvrSYKmw&amp;list=PLlczpwSXEOyajPjTOfJQDbMSsym5fOjfB&amp;index=6&amp;hd=1&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reset your I\/O<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/intro-to-pro-tools-creating-and-recording-a-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intro to Pro Tools: Creating and Recording a Track<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/intro-to-pro-tools-creating-an-instrument-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intro to Pro Tools: Creating an Instrument Track<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/intro-to-pro-tools-measuring-time-and-recording-with-a-click-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intro to Pro Tools: Measuring Time and Recording with a Click Track<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/intro-to-pro-tools-trimming-audio-clips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intro to Pro Tools: Trimming Audio Clips<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/pro-tools-tells-me-that-the-current-playback-engine-does-not-support-a-sample-rate-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pro Tools tells me that \u201cThe current playback engine does not support a sample rate of\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1,5,7],"tags":[42006,58343,58344,74784,58849,54229,56752,33883,35268],"storecat":[],"itemids":[48424,89687,111928,81240,96535,96533,82496,111929,105461,2331,105462,8767,52229],"manufacturers":[33207],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the What do I do if my tracks are greyed out in Pro Tools? page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-do-i-do-if-my-tracks-are-greyed-out-in-pro-tools\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What do I do if my tracks are greyed out in Pro Tools? - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Greyed out track in Pro Tools usually means you don&#8217;t have a valid output path assigned. 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