master solo button pleeeeeeese

sixela · Post by **sixela** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:10 am

can't belive it's not already possible, or am i just missing it - i just want to be able to solo tracks one by one to break the track down, then bring them all back in at once - i know you can do it using pre-listen, but that's not ideal, I would prefer to have them seperate - just a button to take them all off....come on you you you wwant to

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:26 am

2nd that!

sixela · Post by **sixela** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:26 am

sixela wrote: - i know you can do it using pre-listen, but that's not ideal,

just to clarify, the reason it's not ideal is because if you then press the solo'prelisten button again to take it back to solo mode, the soloed tracks you had before come back again, which is obviously not ideal in a live context, but also when writing you want to be able to go back to the full mix quickly, and if you have four or five tracks soled - considering you have to solo the sends as well to hear them with fx, then you have to scroll through etc.

Duuude · Post by **Duuude** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:26 am

3rd, 4th, and 5th here!

sixela · Post by **sixela** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:32 am

hmmm, methinks a poll.....

MGilboe · Post by **MGilboe** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:19 pm

Maybe I'm dense about what you are talking about here, but it seems to me the best way to do what you want to do is MUTE all the the tracks, and then you can click on the mute buttons one by one to bring stuff back in or out...

This is the way most people do it... not with solos.

Michael Gilboe

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:57 pm

the point is to do it all at once - say you solo a loop, then bring in the bass, then another sample, then bring it all back in together. Clicking the mutes one by one kinda spoils the efect doesn't it?

Cubase SX has one - up the left side of the mixer, extremely useful......

the8bitdeity · Post by **the8bitdeity** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:13 pm

forgive my ignorance, but why not use the Scenes to accomplish said goal?

sixela · Post by **sixela** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:26 pm

could do, not bad idea, but that would be mainly of use live, Live is so much more than that I use it to produce my tunes and solo is something i use alot - the main reason it bugs me is that you have to solo the send channels as well, so if you end up with 4 sends, and 3 tracks soloed, then it means you have to unsolo them one by one, it's a very cool thing cubase SX does that is very, very handy, and it can be done alot more spontaneously - you can find your self soloing tracks and building it that way and then trying new combinations, if you just use scenes you would have to copy them all onto the scenes first, it's just one more thing to have to do, but it's a good workaround

tubaz · Post by **tubaz** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 3:44 pm

Why not have it the same way as Pro Tools... option click almost anything and it does it to all channels... if I have soloed say five tracks one by one and then option click on one solo button all get un-soloed...

...or is it already possible?

-t-

six3la · Post by **six3la** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:10 pm

yep, that'll do fine....

but considering the %0 percent turn out for my poll on the matter, it probably wont happen......

(well it seemed like a good idea, a couple of people agreed with me!)

sixela · Post by **sixela** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 11:52 pm

this might be obvious, but I just assigned the solo buttons to qwertyuio on the keyboard and am finding this is a fine way of doing what i suggested - now if only you'd stuck useful stickers like numbers/notes etc to use on the keyboards and controllers in the box...

sixela · Post by **sixela** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:38 am

just another 'bump' to further register the experience of irritation at getting something going with the solos and having to click back through them to get back to the full mix.....

sixela · Post by **sixela** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:39 am

sixela wrote:this might be obvious, but I just assigned the solo buttons to qwertyuio on the keyboard and am finding this is a fine way of doing what i suggested - now if only you'd stuck useful stickers like numbers/notes etc to use on the keyboards and controllers in the box...

limited to 10 tracks that way....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:54 pm

i too would like this feature

master solo button pleeeeeeese

master solo button pleeeeeeese

Re: master solo button pleeeeeeese

Yep