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John Cervino
Participant
Mar 25, 2021 3:37 PM UTC
Acknowledged

Audio Track Mixer Automation mode jumping to Touch

I have a suspected bug that is making the Audio Track Mixer default to Touch mode, instead of Read.

This is troublesome because if a track is temporarily muted, a mute keyframe is added to the timeline. This requires navigating through the keyframe dropdown on each audio track, finding the track keyframe option, and finding and deleting all the mute keyframes.

If I have the mixer pabel open in my workspace, I can watch it switch back to Touch any time I click anywhere outside of Premiere, then back into the mixer panel. 

The default should be Read, but no matter how many times I reset it, save my project, and save my workspace, I encounter the problem.

Premiere Pro v. 23.2.0 (Build 69)

Apple M1 2020 Mac Mini, 16gb RAM

MacOS Monterey, 12.3.1

External USB-C SSD drives

24 replies

Participant
Aug 24, 2026 10:33 PM UTC

You guys have no idea how much hatred I feel towards your whole team. THIS post is 5 years old. 

I’m with the lates premier pro 26 or whatever.

PURE HATRED. LIKE ACTUALL WILL TO FIGHT SOMEONE JESUS CHRIST THIS READ-TOUCH-WRITE BUG makes me go insane. 

Just delete this whole ass feature from the software for gods sake, at least that way I wont try to use it. 

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Participant
Aug 5, 2026 6:50 PM UTC

O problema acontece comigo também. Estou utilizando a última versão, atualizada em 05 de Agosto de 2026.

Além disso, o mute do canal fica ativo. Quando desativo e clico na timeline, o mute ativa novamente.

Frustrante.

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Participant
Mar 1, 2025 8:01 AM UTC

Will your team fix this issue in this decade? Or you just don't know what is the reason of this issue? Be honest brother. 

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Participant
Feb 27, 2025 6:57 PM UTC

Well, it's 2025 and this is still an issue. Touch randomly toggles on even though I set everything to OFF when starting a project. Very frustrating. 

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Participant
Dec 17, 2024 11:36 AM UTC

Same problem here

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Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Legend
Jun 5, 2024 1:09 AM UTC

Hi @John Cervino,

I changed the bug status to Needs More Info. I hope the team will respond.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

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Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Participating Frequently
May 20, 2024 2:46 PM UTC

Meanwhile, I have found a crude workaround. For me, it is track one and master track that keep jumping to touch. So I don't use track one and minimize track height for audio track one. I don't make adjustments on the master track. Helps to keep my blood pressure down. 

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Participant
May 20, 2024 5:12 PM UTC
Great advice! Thank you
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Participant
May 20, 2024 4:31 AM UTC

Almost June 2024 and I'm still running into this very problem! 

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Participating Frequently
Apr 18, 2024 7:07 PM UTC

This issue is still a very big problem for me, and I am up-to-date on my software currently running 24.3.0 on Windows 11. 

Honestly if it were any kind of easy to just pull up all active keyframes like you can do in AfterEffects, I would be less irritated at this bug, but it can become incredibly hard to find what has changed and started creating keyframes. For example I had one instance of a compressor running on one of my dialogue tracks and the audio track mixer jumped to Touch as some point and recorded the Bypass on and off, I guess while I was toggling to hear the difference. After feeling baffled when I saw no parameters changing in the gain or compression, I eventually just went full troubleshoot-mode and when methodically thorugh every parameter of every plug-in until I found it. 

Like I've seen posted in a couple other comments here, the worst is when you are finished your project and miss one of these Touch instances and it reaches client by the time you find out. I spend time reviewing exports so usually I catch them before they send, but in larger quantity projects these can get missed considering it's such a weird and inconspicous bug.

Pleeaasssee fix this!

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Participating Frequently
Nov 9, 2023 4:37 PM UTC

Premiere 2024 fixed this problem. Appreciate the fix. Wish it was sooner. 

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