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PT Peek User Guide

PT Peek is a macOS app that gives you instant visibility into your Pro Tools sessions — tracks, audio files, clips, plugins, and more. Preview and browse Pro Tools session files (.ptx) directly from the Finder — without opening Pro Tools. Reveal online files in Finder, see offline paths, and if Pro Tools is open, you can quickly import basic track data, files, and clips.

What PT Peek Does

  • Quick Look Preview — press Space on any .ptx file in Finder to see session details instantly
  • Session Browser Windows — open .ptx files to explore tracks, clips, audio files, plugins, and much more
  • Audio Playback — play back audio files and clips, interleaved and multi-mono, through your system's default audio output
  • Import to Pro Tools — import basic track data, clips, and audio files directly into a running Pro Tools session
  • Export Session Report — save a multi-page PDF of the full session for archiving or sharing

What's New in 1.1

PT Peek 1.1 makes the Overview the center of navigation, and adds search, filtering, and per-file persistence:

  • Zoomable / pannable Overview — horizontal and vertical zoom with Pro Tools-style shortcuts, scroll bars, and inline triangle buttons
  • Adjustable Overview height — drag the bottom edge of the Overview to grow or shrink it
  • Overview rectangle selection — drag in the Overview to filter Tracks, Audio Files, and Clips to just what's inside
  • Pinned Session Setup and Overview — they stay visible at the top while the lower sections scroll
  • Toolbar search and scope picker (Cmd+F) — filter Tracks, Audio Files, and Clips by name; matching sections auto-expand and show "N of M"
  • Resizable Name columns in Tracks, Audio Files, and Clips
  • Overview playback indicator — a vertical line tracks inline playback through the Overview
  • Waveform double-click to start playback on audio file and clip rows
  • Option-click a section header to open or close all sections (Tracks, Audio Files, Clips, Plugins, Memory Locations) at once
  • Option-click a track disclosure to expand or collapse every track in the Tracks section at once
  • Filter-aware import — imports only the clips currently visible after filtering
  • Per-file persistence — each .ptx window remembers its size, zoom, rectangle, open sections, and column widths
  • Quick Look gets the same Overview controls — zoom buttons, height drag, rectangle filtering

A What's New dialog appears the first time you launch 1.1 with a short summary of these changes.

Requirements

  • macOS 12.0 (Monterey) or later
  • Pro Tools 10 or later .ptx files
  • Pro Tools 2025.6 or later (for Import to Pro Tools features)
  • iLok account (for license activation)

Quick Start

  1. Install PT Peek
  2. Launch the app to register the Quick Look extension
  3. Select any .ptx file in Finder, press Space to preview it
  4. To open a full session browser window, do any of the following:
    • Right-click the file → Open With → PT Peek
    • In PT Peek, use File → Open…
    • Drag one or more .ptx files onto the PT Peek icon in the Dock