Strange bug: Track will only play when solo'd

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I encountered a very strange bug today:

I opened up a recent project, and one of the tracks produced no audio (it was a VST track with Groove Agent in it) when I played it in context of the project.

However, when I solo’d the track, it played back just fine?!

This hadn’t happened before (this is a project that’s been around for a while), and after I duplicated the track, the duplicated track worked as it should (i.e. played back even if I didn’t solo it). So I just deleted the troublesome track, and moved on with my day with the duplicated track.

I still wanted to post this here, in case somebody else has encountered this, so that they can find the workaround (duplicating the track).

Must be some strange edge case bug. I should mention that the track has some mute automation on it, but the section of the project I played back the mute automation turned mute off, so that’s not it, but maybe some weird initialization bug when automation is involved? Who knows, just throwing ideas out there…

Latest Cubase 14 on latest Windows.

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Hi,

Try to click on the Deactivate All Mute States and Deactivate All Solo States buttons in the toolbar. Maybe, something is hanging there.

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I’ve had that happen occasionally - sometimes when I’ve muted an individual track on a group, then soloed the group or whatever. As @Martin.Jirsak says - activate and deactivate the master solo and mute functions and all should be fine. I’ve no idea why technically it happens, but it is just a minor irritation in the scheme of things :smile:

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Ah, thank you, I’m glad that I’m not the only person running into this.

Well, actually, I’m not glad that the bug exists, but I’m glad that there are at least two workarounds!

I can’t confirm whether the Deactivate All Mute/Solo States button workaround fixes it since my “duplicate the track” workaround already fixed it, but it’s good to have this discussion here for posterity.