Automating Mute: OFF also equals SOLO when soloing other tracks

traumawelt · July 1, 2019, 8:00am

Since I have the exact same issue in Cubase Pro 10.0.30 I quote this here in the Cubase 10 thread…

Norrin_Radd22:

I am automating an instrument’s mute lane, but when I have it set to off before the part where I want it to be muted, Cubase situationally considers it to be in solo mode if I hit solo on other tracks.

When I hit solo on any other track (not the one in question), it also automatically solos the track that has automation on the mute channel, and anywhere it is automated to have mute off, it considers this as just another channel to solo. Pressing solo on another track literally turns on solo for the track with mute automated off as well. This can’t be correct. I hit solo on a track because I want to hear it solo, why does Cubase also solo the track that has mute automated to be off?

As far as I know, Cubase 6 did not have this behaviour, but it is different in Cubase 9.5. Is this a feature or a toggle that is turned on by default? Can I turn it off?

What is the point in automating mute if it messes with your ability to solo other tracks? I could automate volume instead, but then I can’t use the faders to make changes to the volume, so that is not helpful.

Any workaround? Maybe just a preference thing?

Martin.Jirsak · July 1, 2019, 10:21am

Hi,

Could you provide an example file or a video, please?

There is always a difference to click Solo and Mute in the Project window or MixConsole. Therefore I would ask for a video or exact step-by-step reproduction, please.

ozinga · March 6, 2022, 9:53am

I was looking for this and bumped to this thread.
I would much prefer when a track is soloed it should temporarily disable the mute automation of other tracks and keep them muted.

At least this is the behavior on other DAWs I have and personally makes more sense.

It is disturbing when working on a solo’ed track and suddenly you hear other tracks and, also causing problems when soloing a bunch of tracks and exporting a mixdown. All tracks with mute automation are added to the mixdown file as well. Only solution is, to mute the regions or bypass the mute automation of all tracks, which is inconvenient.

If there is a way that I am unaware I would love to know!

Best,