Separat solo bus

[Tor Gunnar Kjøllesdal]

I do not want solo to affect master channel, I want solo and monitoring on a different bus routed to another hardware output.

Is it possible to create a separate solo bus like this in Cakewalk?

[reginaldStjohn]

I would think you just could create another bus and then route that to the desired hardware output. However, I don't quite know what you mean when you say you don't want solo to affect the master channel. 

If you solo a track then that track will mute all other tracks.

[Glenn Stanton]

this is similar to this question on separating the monitoring volume from the master. @Lord Tim has it correct. also: 

 

 

[Glenn Stanton]

i use tracks grouped into a buss - drums, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, pianos, synths, vocals, etc. these busses become my main mix, and then if something in the group needs to be tweaked at a track level, easy enough to adjust the balance within the buss grouping. for soloing then i just solo the buss, or the stem (low, drum, vox, instruments, solo), or worst case back to the individual track(s) - but usually i don't solo both a track and a buss since it can create weird routing situations.

e.g. drums buss + pdrums + kick feed into the drums stem. so if i'm going to tweak the drums parts (kick, snare, hh, toms etc) i'll solo the drums stem (a stereo buss feeding the master). all the vibes, reverbs, etc associated to the drums are there now. and i can solo the tracks or mute some to tweak the track levels. but i wouldn't try to solo the bass track or buss unless i soloed the low stem as well.

edit: one quick note -- you could do all this with aux tracks in lieu of busses. this is handy when you want to keep the group track next to the associated tracks. for example: you might create a "drums" aux track which has a mix of the drum parts, and perhaps more than one which has various tracks so you can set the levels via automation, and then these feed the drums "stem" buss (where you might do other processing) 

Edited February 21, 2023 by fossile