Alongside M5 support, it clears up launch and buffer-size bugs specific to the latest MacBook Pro models.
Avid has rolled out Pro Tools 2026.4.1, with the headline change being support for Apple’s latest M5-powered Macs – so anyone who’s picked up a new MacBook Pro lately can finally run the DAW on it.
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For the M5 specifically, two bugs from the previous build are gone. Pro Tools will no longer crash on launch on a MacBook Pro M5 Pro or M5 Max, and no longer hang when the hardware buffer size is changed on those machines. Everything else in the release carries over from April’s 2026.4 update.
The bulk of the April release went towards immersive work and editing. Track Pin locks chosen tracks in place in the Edit window, so a guide track or anything else you’re referencing stays put while the rest of the session scrolls past. On Studio and Ultimate, the free Fraunhofer MPEG-H Renderer plugin and a new Immersive Panner arrived, the latter handling multichannel objects up to 9.1.6, while Dolby Headphone Personalization lets you build a profile of your own head in a mobile app and load it into the Atmos renderer for closer headphone monitoring.
A full installer covers Intro, Artist, Studio and Ultimate, with the iLok authorisation the only thing separating the tiers. Beyond the M5 fixes, 2026.4.1 also clears a long list of other bug fixes across editing, mixing, recording and video.
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