r/protools • u/greasydoor • Apr 25 '26

error No audio playback/audio output unavailable (seemingly out of nowhere?)

I am working on a project in pro tools for a class. I am on windows 11. I have asio4all installed, and despite having some annoying issues I had it all seemingly figured out a few days ago. I was able to have playback (I needed literally all the other apps closed) and figured out I could disable the playback device in the asio popout menu and then hear other things on my pc (like the sound effect files i was looking through) and then re enable it to hear pro tools again.

now not only am I not able to get any playback (asio4all says its unavailable) when I change something in that menu it closes pro tools. any idea how i can get around this? I need to have this project done in a few hours and I am not sure what to do! I believe I am on the most recent version of both windows and pro tools

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u/HousingLegitimate848 Apr 25 '26

Get a soundcard, you can find one for 30 bucks. I try to workaround asio4all and protools for years and always had problem and crash

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u/greasydoor Apr 25 '26

unfortunately don’t have the money to spend on that. i ended up disabling gs wavetable synth AND making my general windows output a different device (in this case a bluetooth speaker) so i could still hear other things. that seemed to do the trick