+ - If you are using Ardour without a monitor bus, there is only one way + When using Ardour without a monitor bus, there is only one way in which mute and solo will work:
+ 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, you have more options, mostly + 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 > Solo / mute. + in Edit > Preferences > Monitoring.
With Solo controls are Listen controls @@ -36,12 +41,13 @@ bus is fed from the master bus, so it sees the same thing.
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Now, without any mute or listen, the monitor bus remains fed by @@ -69,7 +75,12 @@
The solo-mute arrangement with a monitor bus is shown below:
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+ Here we have a number of tracks or busses (in orange). Each one has an output which feeds the master bus. In addition, each has PFL and AFL @@ -80,12 +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 > Solo / Mute has some + Edit > Preferences > Monitoring has some more solo options:
@@ -94,37 +105,40 @@ 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 you might want to use. + control offers any level of "in-front-ness" that is desired. +If this is enabled, only one track or bus will ever be soloed at once; soloing track B while track A is currently soloed will un-solo track A before soloing track B.
+If this is enabled, the mute button of tracks and busses will be drawn outlined to indicate that the track or bus is muted because something else - is soloed. This is enabled by default, and we recommend that you leave it - that way unless you are extremely comfortable with Ardour's mute/solo + is soloed. This is enabled by default, and it is recommended to leave it + that way unless extremely comfortable with Ardour's mute/solo behaviour.
+If this is enabled, a track or bus that is both soloed and muted will behave as if it is soloed.
-These options dictate whether muting the track will affect various routes out of the track; through the sends, through the control outputs (to the monitor bus) and to the main outputs.
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