busses which feed that bus.
</li>
</ul>
+<p>
+ The Solo status indicator button in the Toolbar blinks when one or more
+ tracks are being soloed. Clicking this button disables any active explicit
+ and implicit solo on all tracks and busses.
+</p>
<h2>With a monitor bus</h2>
<p>
For setups with a monitor bus, more options are available, mostly
governed by the setting of the
<kbd class="option">Solo controls are Listen controls</kbd> option
- in <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Mixer.</kbd>
+ in <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Monitoring.</kbd>
</p>
<p>
With <kbd class="optoff">Solo controls are Listen controls</kbd>
ticked, the master and monitor busses behave differently. In this
mode, solo controls are more properly called <dfn>listen</dfn>
controls, and Ardour's solo buttons will change their legend from
- <kbd class="menu">S</kbd> to either <kbd class="menu">A</kbd> or <kbd class="menu">P</kbd> to
- reflect this.
+ <kbd class="menu">S</kbd> for Solo to show the listening point,
+ either <kbd class="menu">A</kbd> for After fader or
+ <kbd class="menu">P</kbd> for Pre fader.
</p>
<p>
Now, without any mute or listen, the monitor bus remains fed by
</p>
<p>
In this scheme Solo has no effect other than to mute other non-soloed tracks;
- with solo (rather then listen), the monitor out is fed from the master bus.
+ with solo (rather than listen), the monitor out is fed from the master bus.
</p>
<h2>Other solo options</h2>
<p>
- <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Mixer</kbd> has some
+ <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Monitoring</kbd> has some
more solo options:
</p>
When using solo-in-place (SiP), in other words when soloed tracks are being
listened to on the master bus, this fader specifies the gain that will be
applied to other tracks in order to mute them. Setting this level to
- -∞ dB will mean that other tracks will not be heard at all; setting to
+ −∞ dB will mean that other tracks will not be heard at all; setting to
some higher value less than 0dB means that other non-soloed tracks will be heard, just
reduced in volume compared to the soloed tracks. Using a value
- larger than -∞ dB is sometimes called "Solo-In-Front" by other DAWs, because
+ larger than −∞ dB is sometimes called "Solo-In-Front" by other DAWs, because
the listener has the sense that soloed material is "in front" of other
material. In Ardour, this is not a distinct mode, but instead the mute cut
control offers any level of "in-front-ness" that is desired.