Tommy Byrnes Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Hi folks, I just tried to use Dim Solo for the first time in a while and found it doesn't work. I just did the Early Release hoping it would fix it but no go. I'm not sure when it broke as I don't use it much but I could have used it during a mix session. Thanks for the help! Tommy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gswitz Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Does it work in a new project? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 What's your dim solo level set to? The lowest level is -18db, which might be too quiet to hear depending on the project. You can change the level in Preferences- > Audio -> Driver Settings -> Dim Solo Gain: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Byrnes Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 Changing the Dim Solo Gain has no effect and it doesn't work in either new projects or old ones. Not sure why it would just stop working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Murray-Wakefield Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 I'm on the latest non-early version: 2021.11 of Cakewalk and it's working fine here. You've not said how it isn't working. When the DIM button is pressed in the Mix Panel and you solo a track, what happens? Does it behave like regular solo, or do the solo buttons on tracks have no effect whatsoever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Byrnes Posted December 13, 2021 Author Share Posted December 13, 2021 3 hours ago, Jeremy Murray-Wakefield said: I'm on the latest non-early version: 2021.11 of Cakewalk and it's working fine here. You've not said how it isn't working. When the DIM button is pressed in the Mix Panel and you solo a track, what happens? Does it behave like regular solo, or do the solo buttons on tracks have no effect whatsoever? You know, I'm not sure how long as I don't really use it. I thought it would come in handy working on percussion parts of a mix the other day and when I pressed it and soloed a track nothing happens. Exclusive solo works fine and so does regular solo. It's not a usual part of my workflow so it may have stopped working ages ago and I never noticed it. Weird, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prem Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 I'm on version 2021.11 Build 018. Dim Solo is not working observed this last month too , one update prior to this. Checked Driver settings as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otosan1956 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 I'm on version 2021.12 build 102. Dim Solo doesn't work when Patch Point is used. Here's my test configuration. Track 1: Audio clip, Output: Master Track 2: Audio clip, Output: Patch point1 Track3: Input: Patch point1, Output: Master with DIM on, When tack1 is soloed, Output from Track3 is NOT dimed. Track2 or 3 is soloed, Output from Track1 is dimed. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvideo Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Can anyone say what should happen with dim solo in that simple case? When track 1 is soloed, then would track 2 be dimmed as it goes out to the patch point? Then track 3 dimmed also, double-dimming the sound from track 2? How should double-dimming be avoided? And did such attempt to avoid wind up being the source of the no-dimming on track 3? More complex routing would probably have even further hazards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otosan1956 Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Oh, I didn't think about "double-dimming"..... Good point. When Track1 is soloed probably I would expect Track2 which includes "patch point output" shouldn't be dimmed but Track3 which includes "Patch point input" should be dimmed as other normal track. Maybe vise versa. Just my personal opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Byrnes Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 My original OP was about normal Dim Solo. Dim solo a track and all other tracks are lowered in volume by the specified amount. It's always worked the times I've used it until the latest update. I don't use patch points so I'm not sure about double dimming with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otosan1956 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 On 12/29/2021 at 11:07 PM, Otosan1956 said: Track 1: Audio clip, Output: Master Track 2: Audio clip, Output: Patch point1 Track3: Input: Patch point1, Output: Master If I use BUS instead of Track3 with Patch Point, it works as I expected. I would take this way for now. The only reason I wanted to use above configuration is an intuitive Console layout/ maintainability. I'm looking forward the improvement in the future release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musekamp Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I also just noticed that Dim Solo doesn't work when you have tracks routed to an Aux track. When you click Solo and you have Dim enabled, no volumes are changed, it's just like you didn't engage the Solo button. Without Dim enabled, Solo always seems to work fine. My test was 2 instrument tracks. I tried all 3 gain levels. When both tracks are routed to an Aux track (same or separate), Dim Solo stops working for me. When the tracks are routed to the Master or any other bus, Dim Solo works as expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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