Hi,
I think a “Solo” button in the VST windows would be very practical.
Thanks
For what purpose?
You’re working on tweaking a virtual instrument or audio plugin, initially in context, but now you want to hear the isolated track that plugin belongs to. MIGHT be as simple as clicking on the solo button for the track itself, be it in the project window or MixConsole. However, just as often as not, the controls are hidden behind the plugin window itself, so you have to move the plugin around to get to the solo button. This is especially a common thing I see with very large plugins, like Superior Drummer 3, but it can be common enough with many modern plugins.
Just hit the S on keyboard
Does that work even if the track being worked on plugin-wise doesn’t have focus?
What do you mean by “VST window” actually? Instrument W, project W, manager W, or…
I don’t know this concept.
If you’re working on a VST instrument you are probably either in the project window, mixer window or the midi editor.
All of these have a Solo button.
I don’t know what specifically the original poster meant (i.e. other than that the solo button would actually appear in the VST plugin window), but here’s are a couple examples of where I think this could be valuable.
Scenario one: You’re working on adjusting sounds in multiple VST instruments in parallel, so have multiple VST instrument plugin windows open, switching back and forth between them. Even if you’ve got multiple monitors (I have two), these plugin windows can take up a fair amount of screen real estate, obscuring track-level controls in the project window and MixConsole (i.e. the two windows I have up full screen on my two monitors). Now you’d like to (temporarily) solo one of those instruments to hear it in isolation. As things stand now, unless the instrument you want to solo is on the track with the focus (where shortcut keys could solo it), you’d have to move plugins around in order to get to the track in the MixConsole or project window in order to solo it, then move the plugins back to where they can conveniently be used during the solo use, then move them back again to unsolo (unless the project-level solo/unsolo everything button is visible, in which case you might be able to use that without moving the plugin windows again), then move the plugin window back to be able to work on them more conveniently.
Scenario two: Similar scenario while mixing, only we’re talking audio plugin windows – let’s say multiple channel strip plugins or EQs because you’re working to fit multiple tracks together in the mix, and changes you make to one track may need compensation in another track. And, again, now you want to temporarily hear the track a given channel strip or EQ plugin is on in isolation. And it would be nice to be able to do this without having to move plugins windows around. So you just press the (requested) solo button in the plugin window, and it solos the track (or bus) it applies to.
Cubase has a lot of window shuffling/focus considerations in general, this could be a convenient way to address one specific scenario that could dramatically reduce the window shuffling while working in plugins.