SOLO BEHAVIOR

[charles kasler]

I hate to be dense but I'm having a hard time with soloing tracks. Probably user error but it seems like something's changed since the last update. It may be because I had been away from Sonar for a long time & I'm slowly getting to learn CbB again. Is there any easy way to understand  soloing tracks besides the documentation? Thanks.

[reginaldStjohn]

If the documentation doesn't help you then you are on your own to figure it out. What particular issue are you having?

When I solo a track it solo's and that is the only track I hear, unless I have "dim solo" enabled.

Mine behaves like is documented below.

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Playback.14.html

[charles kasler]

Thanks, it's probably user error. Sometimes I click solo and it doesn't seem to respond or everything gets soloed or muted. I just need to reread the documentation and take it a step at a time

[Billy86]

When you say ‘I click solo’ you’re not selecting a track you want to solo, and then clicking the solo button in the control bar, right? You’re clicking the solo button on the track you want to solo, right?

[charles kasler]

I don't have it in front of me right now but I may have been doing just that, clicking the solo button in the mix module. I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the input.

[Billy86]

On 7/13/2022 at 8:47 AM, charles kasler said:

I don't have it in front of me right now but I may have been doing just that, clicking the solo button in the mix module. I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the input.

So how did that work out?

[charles kasler]

It's better now.

[Troy Winemiller]

Solo with MIDI is not what I'm used to either.

Used to be, when you Solo'd a MIDI track that was routed to a virtual instrument, It would Solo the track and the VI, and if you un-solo'd ...you'd go back to the main mix.

 

now, the VI remains solo'd and you hear nothing.  It might be a pref, but jfc.

[Noel Borthwick]

On 7/13/2022 at 11:47 AM, charles kasler said:

I don't have it in front of me right now but I may have been doing just that, clicking the solo button in the mix module. I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the input.

Clicking solo in the mix module is a global operation to solo or unsolo ALL tracks. 
For soloing individual tracks or buses you have to click on the individual strip solo buttons.