u/Ventoux72

Maybe I'm missing a trick, and I'm fully on board with the whole rewinding of the tape, but ...

Would it be possible to have say three location points that you can set, clear and recall so that you can easily assign one to the head of the song, and maybe first chorus and solo section, or whatever sections you are currently working on.

So you would press the location point button when the tape is in the correct position (make sure it's empty or clear the location point before hand) - and this would lock in the current position . Then the next time you press that location button the tape would rewind or fast-forward to that location, without you having to keep your hands on the transport (which makes things easier if you have for example a guitar in your hand). Programmable Location points where standard on tape transports, so I don't think this goes against the whole Tape16 ethos,

cheers,

The problem I have is re-opening 25+ year old sessions, created on OS8 or OS9.

To be able to use them reliably in 2026 they would have to work on both macOS and Windows platforms, which eliminates some of the special characters that macOS has allowed the use of in the past. (e.g. @, ?, / and all the various accented characters that macOS didn't use the ISO-standard for in the past).

After transferring from HFS-drives to modern file-systems (including the resource forks) it is not a big problem renaming the actual files on the drive.
The problem arises when you have to find the files again when opening the session.

If the spelling is the same then it pretty much works OK, but if you have files that originally had special characters then Pro Tools cannot find them. You can go into the clip-list and rename the Offline files there (i.e. substituting the special characters with the same character you used to replace them on the hard drives), but that name-change isn't reflected in the ReLink-cue.

I.e. if you have a vocal take in the old PT4 session that was called "VOC JOHN @ 1st CHORUS-01", then the @ would be a problematic character on the harddrive and could be replaced with an underscore and now is called "VOC JOHN _ 1st CHORUS-01".
You could batch-rename all clips and whole files listed in the Clip List in Pro Tools and replace @ with _ , but the file names in the Relink window still retain their original name, and so cannot automatically find the file by name.

I realise that I can find that file in the Workspace and drag it into the candidates field of Relink and select it there, and then Commit Links, but that is very time consuming, and error prone.

So is there some way, hitherto unbeknownst to me where one can edit the Missing file names in the Relink window?

PT2026.4, Win11 Home 10.0.26200