X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=include%2Fmuting-and-soloing.html;h=ad631dcf345451151783cd9c5de9e4a6a1bc8e79;hb=3532eaf880572e65dea6acd1f391efa598303111;hp=c5f8afd04514979117327cd84eccde6cfc7039fa;hpb=858e4e6227e192c8d9efc4140fb91603d2d85657;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/include/muting-and-soloing.html b/include/muting-and-soloing.html index c5f8afd..ad631dc 100644 --- a/include/muting-and-soloing.html +++ b/include/muting-and-soloing.html @@ -21,13 +21,18 @@ busses which feed that bus. +
+ 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. +
For setups with a monitor bus, more options are available, mostly governed by the setting of the Solo controls are Listen controls option - in Edit > Preferences > Mixer. + in Edit > Preferences > Monitoring.
With Solo controls are Listen controls @@ -40,8 +45,9 @@ ticked, the master and monitor busses behave differently. In this mode, solo controls are more properly called listen controls, and Ardour's solo buttons will change their legend from - S to either A or P to - reflect this. + S for Solo to show the listening point, + either A for After fader or + P for Pre fader.
Now, without any mute or listen, the monitor bus remains fed by @@ -85,12 +91,12 @@
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.
- Edit > Preferences > Mixer has some + Edit > Preferences > Monitoring has some more solo options:
@@ -99,10 +105,10 @@ 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 - some higher value less than 0dB means that other non-soloed tracks will be h - eard, 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 + −∞ 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 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.