Solo/Mute issue

[johnnysror]

 

Hi

Kindly see the video, please.

 

I've some solos and muted tracks that, if I disable/enable one of the solos in the project it automatically unmute all of the mute tracks.

Thanks in advance.

 

Logic 10.7.9

16inch, M1 Max, 64GB

 

 

 

[David Nahmani]

Yes, I can reproduce that here. 

I'm curious what the intended workflow is? I mean what's the goal of having all these tracks soloed and muted? 

[johnnysror]

 

Hi David, thanks for your reply.

As for your question, there is no goal. That's how we used to work for years, but somehow this happened. That's really annoying, and it's a serious "vibe killer."

I'm attaching here another link from Intel MacBook 2019. This time it's Logic 10.5.1. As you can see, there is no problem with that workflow.

 

[David Nahmani]

Oh ok. The reason I was asking what your goal is, is that perhaps there is a way to achieve your goal using another technique. I noticed that even though clicking a Solo button disables the Mute buttons, they come back on when you disable their Solo button. 

It's hard to tell if it's a bug or intentional. I personally haven't found myself in a situation with multiple tracks both soloed and muted at the same time. 

[johnnysror]

23 minutes ago, David Nahmani said:

Oh ok. The reason I was asking what your goal is, is that perhaps there is a way to achieve your goal using another technique. I noticed that even though clicking a Solo button disables the Mute buttons, they come back on when you disable their Solo button. 

It's hard to tell if it's a bug or intentional. I personally haven't found myself in a situation with multiple tracks both soloed and muted at the same time. 

I know why you asked that 🙂 of course, we found a way, but to work smoothly, we must figure out why that is happening with no reason or without settings change.

[SettleTheScore]

Is there a way to stop the solo button toggling the mute button?

I might be imagining it but was there an option key to permanently mute?

I'm hoping to find a solution that doesn't include the power button.

[David Nahmani]

20 hours ago, SettleTheScore said:

I might be imagining it but was there an option key to permanently mute?

You can mute the regions: select the regions and press Control-M. 

[SettleTheScore]

Many thanks for your reply David.

If you cast your mind back to previous versions of Logic, do you vaguely remember a slash through the mute button - I'm pretty sure there used to be an option key to permanently mute a track..

To me having the solo button toggle/override the mute button seems to be a bit of a bug.

Muting individual clips isn't a long term solution or workaround.

Perhaps a feature request?

[David Nahmani]

5 minutes ago, SettleTheScore said:

Perhaps a feature request?

Yes, why not!

5 minutes ago, SettleTheScore said:

If you cast your mind back to previous versions of Logic, do you vaguely remember a slash through the mute button - I'm pretty sure there used to be an option key to permanently mute a track..

I don't remember that, I know you can Control-click a Solo button which then takes a red slash indicating it's solo-safed (it cannot be muted when another track is soloed), but I can't remember the slash through a Mute button. I'm not saying that's never been the case, but I just ... can't remember.