Wanted to work with saxes in big band project so I muted all other instruments. Finished with saxes but now all other instruments are stuck on mute. Sax mute and solo still work normally.
Clicked on mute buttons individually as well as the deactivate all. Thought I might have accidentally automated it so clicked on “delete all automation”.
Restarted Dorico and then rebooted computer but they are still stuck on mute.
In solo mode all parts play but when I deactivate solo mode the mutes are still stuck.
Other projects are working fine. So it is something specific to this project.
Well, I could. But in my frustration I walked away from it to take a break. When I came back to the battle it was magically working again.
I didn’t do anything since my original post so I have no idea why. Just glad it’s working again.
However, if this happened to me it might have happened to others and may well happen again. So maybe, if nothing else, this post will be the start of documentation.
I had this same issue in Dorico 6 Pro. I had all but one instrument muted.(Big Band chart) I tried to unmute all but the highlighted mute buttons stayed active. However, I could hear all instruments on playback. I also could not solo any instrument at that point. My solution was to mute and unmute the main output channel in the mixer and that allowed me to deactivate mute for all instruments and soloing instruments started working as well.
Some VSTs, like NotePerformer, can feed all their tracks into the Dorico Mixer via the first stereo channel. To mute instruments in such a VST, one must use the VST mixer for mutes adn solos rather than Dorico’s mixer.