Soloing tracks

Sometimes you want to hear a single track, or a few tracks at once, without having to mute all the other tracks. You can do this by soloing the tracks you want to hear.

As soon as any track is marked as a solo track, Cakewalk ignores all mute settings (unless a soloed track is also muted—mute takes precedence over solo) and plays only the track or tracks that are set to solo. Any number of tracks at one time can be marked as solo. All these tracks will play together. As soon as the solo status of the final solo track is turned off, Cakewalk once again plays back tracks based on their mute settings.

To solo or unsolo individual tracks

To solo or unsolo a track, click its Solo button in the Track, Console view or Track Inspector.

To solo or unsolo several tracks at once, select the tracks and do one of the following:

Right-click a track strip and choose MSR > Solo on the pop-up menu.

To solo all selected tracks of the same track type, hold down the CTRL key and click any selected track’s Solo button .

To solo all tracks, hold down the CTRL key and click any non-selected track’s Solo button .

Tip: You can quickly enable/disable the Solo button on multiple tracks by simply clicking a button in one track, then dragging across adjacent tracks without releasing the mouse button. Only buttons that match the clicked button’s state will change.

 

See also:

Dim Solo mode

To unsolo all tracks

Click the Solo / Unsolo All Tracks button in the Control Bar’s Mix module.

To solo all tracks

Do one of the following:

Click the Solo / Unsolo All Tracks button in the Control Bar’s Mix module.

Hold down the CTRL key and click any track’s Solo button .

 

See also:

Dim Solo mode

Exclusive Solo mode

Solo Override