Pro Tools session to MP3

Drop a Pro Tools session to get an MP3, or select a file. It opens in the studio, ready to export.

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How to get an MP3 out of a Pro Tools project

Somebody sent you a Pro Tools session and you want to hear it: in a car, on a phone, in a reply to the mail it came in. Opening it the usual way means installing Pro Tools and an Avid account. The music is not locked in the program, though: it is in the Audio Files folder next to the session document, and the session says where each clip goes and how loud.

  1. Add the session folder: A session is a packed binary, read on our server. No account is needed to open it. Choose the session folder, or drop a zip of it, so the Audio Files folder comes too: that is where the sound is.
  2. It renders by itself: The studio opens on the session and starts the MP3 straight away: every clip from the Audio Files folder at its position, through its track's fader and pan, mixed in your browser.
  3. Download the MP3: One 256 kbps file of the whole session lands in your downloads. No account is needed for it.

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Questions about the Pro Tools session to MP3 converter?

We have answers.

Can I convert a .ptx to MP3 without Pro Tools?

Yes, add the session folder here. The session's own recordings play at its faders and come out as one MP3. Its plugins and automation do not: they only run inside Pro Tools.

Do I need an account?

No. The session is read on our server and the mix is made in your browser, signed out.

Why is the MP3 silent, or missing tracks?

The recordings live in the Audio Files folder, not in the .ptx. Choose the whole session folder, or a zip of it, and every clip it can find plays.

What about MIDI and instrument tracks?

They come across by name with no notes in them, so nothing plays them and they are not in the MP3. Export MIDI from Pro Tools and take the .mid to MIDI to audio if you need those parts.

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  • Audio-first, and what that leaves out

    A Pro Tools session is mostly recordings: the .ptx arranges clips that live in the Audio Files folder beside it. Those play from your copy, at their positions, through each track's fader and pan: the session's own recordings summed at the session's own levels, and nothing else. No insert chain, no automation pass, no aux send, no clip effects. MIDI and instrument tracks come across by name, with no notes inside, so nothing plays them and they are not in the file. A session dropped without its folder has nothing to play at all, and the studio asks for the folder.

  • A reference bounce, and worth calling one

    What comes out is a reference mix in the old sense: good enough to check an arrangement, a take, a running order, an edit point. Whoever made the session will hear the difference from their mix straight away (their plugins and automation are not in it), so label it as a reference when it goes out. Their bounce is still the deliverable. This one is for the people waiting to hear it.

  • One bitrate, and what it costs

    256 kbps is the only bitrate on offer: about 1.9 MB a minute, so a four-minute song lands near 8 MB. An MP3 is what you send; if the audio will be worked on, take a WAV instead.

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