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10 <section id="sn-soloing-tracks">
11 <title>Soloing Tracks</title>
13 <primary>Tracks</primary>
14 <secondary>Soloing</secondary>
17 "Soloing" a track refers to changing some aspect of the signal flow
18 through Ardour that makes it possible to listen to one (or just a few)
19 tracks at a time. It is often done during mixing and mastering to help
20 an audio engineer listen carefully to parts of the mix.
24 Tracks may be soloed at any time. When one or more tracks are soloed,
25 all non-soloedntracks will no longer be audible.
29 Soloing tracks does not affect the solo status of busses, nor vice
30 versa. That is, soloing a track leaves all busses audible and soloing a
31 track leaves all tracks "audible". You may not actually be able to hear
32 the "audible" material if it is routed through a non-soloed bus.
36 This design is intended to allow FX busses and master outs to be useful
37 even when soloing. Soloing is made significantly more complex by the
38 presence of control outs (see control_outs_soloing for more details on
39 soloing with control outs).
42 <section id="rude-solo-light">
43 <title>Rude Solo Light</title>
45 Whenever one or more tracks are soloed, the "rude solo light" in the
46 transport window will flash. You can cancel any current solos by
47 clicking on the "rude solo light".
51 <section id="solo-modes">
52 <title>Solo modes</title>
54 Ardour has two solo modes.
60 <term>solo latch</term>
63 soloing a track adds it to the set of soloed tracks, so you may
64 have any number of soloed tracks.
70 <term>solo unlatch</term>
73 soloing a track unsolos any other soloed track, so you can have
74 only one soloed track at a time.
81 <section id="changing-solo-mode">
82 <title>Changing Solo Mode</title>
84 To change the solo mode, goto the Options editor (options_editor) and
85 view the <guilabel>Misc</guilabel> tab.
89 <section id="soloing-a-track">
90 <title>Soloing a Track</title>
92 To toggle the solo state of a track, click on the solo button in
93 either the mixer strip for the track or the track controls section in
98 To toggle the solo state of all tracks in an edit or mix group, use
99 Ctrl1 on the solo button of a track in the group. If you do this in
100 the Editor, the edit group will be used; in the Mixer, the mix group
105 To toggle the solo state of all tracks, use
106 <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Shift</keycap><mousebutton>Button1</mousebutton></keycombo>
107 on a track solo button.
111 <section id="solo-safe">
112 <title>Solo safe</title>
114 To protect a track's current solo status, use Shift1 on that track's
115 solo button. The color of the button will change to a pale blue to
116 indicate "solo safe" status. No changes to the solo state for that
117 track are possible until "solo safe" has been unset for the track.
121 <section id="momentary-solo">
122 <title>Momentary solo</title>
124 Use 2 on a track's solo button to solo the track for as long as the
125 mouse button is pressed.