Toggling Solo buttons option for Mixer - Force New Selection

[fl]

Often I find myself comparing two different mike set-ups coming in on different tracks/channels. It would be nice to have an option for the Solo that would force the De-selection of previously soloed channels, when I click on the solo for another channel. This way, I wouldn't have to un-solo one channel and hear the full mix before soloing my other channel - I could just switch back and forth.

[Graemme]

Hi Frank,

There are (at least) two ways to achieve this:

1) Right-click over a fader and choose 'Add Strip' and select 'Group.' Then, when asked choose '2' as the number of groups.

Assign the first set of mics to the first group and so on.

Now, you can switch between the groups by pressing either the Group's 'Solo' or 'Mute' buttons. Sure, this takes two clicks instead of one, but see the next:

2) Create a second output bus and route only the second set of mics to it, while also de-assigning the second set of mics from the first output bus.

Make sure that neither output bus is assigned to any physical output.

Go to the 'Monitor Panel' and assign the physical outputs to whatever you use for monitoring.

On the left-hand side of the monitor window, simply selecting one of the two output buses will, with a single-click, toggle you between the two sets of microphones.

I can't give you specific page numbers, as I don't have a PMX V5.1 manual handy, but the rest of the details required are in there somewhere.

Best,

Graemme

[charlienyc]

i think i see Frank's scenario and intention of his suggestion.

picture it: you've got a large orchestra out in the room with multiple mics setup. you want to quickly solo each one in succession without summing the solos. this was one of the solo modes on a large analog console such as an SSL. not sure if it was "fleet" or what the name was, but it was a very fast / convenient way to check things on the fly.

if i can add my $.02 (in USD ), i've been longing for a "solo clear" function on the mixer. too often i click the mutes when i'm trying to un-solo several channels.
cheers,
-c

[charlienyc]

this was one of the solo modes on a large analog console such as an SSL. not sure if it was "fleet" or what the name was, but it was a very fast / convenient way to check things on the fly.

it was "ALT" where pushing another Solo button resets previously solo'd channels. pretty nifty!

[Silas]

Hey C!

Wasn't it you who told me that you could ctrl-click the solos to remove all solo'd strips in one swoop?

-S

[charlienyc]

Wasn't it you who told me that you could ctrl-click the solos to remove all solo'd strips in one swoop? -S

nope - 'twas probably Graemme.
that's pretty cool - actually solves both problems, since it works no matter what solo you CTRL-click on thanks!

[Graemme]

Charlie,

Thanks for reminding me of the other scenario: not just groups of channels, but individual channels, too.

As you said, CTRL-Click on any solo and it acts as a 'Solo-Exclusive' for that channel alone. If you combine this with my suggestion of using two 'Group' strips, then a single CTRL-Click (on either of the Group strips) will toggle between two sets of appropriately assigned inputs.

Best Regards,

Graemme

P.S. Charlie, shouldn't those red lights in your avatar be on all of the time? - they are on my masters, you know...

[charlienyc]

P.S. Charlie, shouldn't those red lights in your avatar be on all of the time? - they are on my masters, you know...

what, you want overs? i'll give you overs! none of this isolated momentary peak stuff either. i'll give you some sustained, way-into-the-red, severely-clipped and already-distorted-before-the-A/D-conversion, +30dBu-after-D/A-conversion overs! it'll be just perfect for the kind of music we work on, won't it? muah-ha-ha

[charlienyc]

to follow up on this and take it a bit further...
at some point, will basic mixer commands be available via macros or keyboard shortcuts? please excuse me if this already happened in 6.1.

when in the heat of editing a concerto, for instance, i find myself soloing the soloist's tracks, making changes in the fade editor and edit window, then re-checking the section without the solo. even working with two screens, i don't have enough room to do this without toggling the mixer to make each change. it's cumbersome, and it comes up often. to be able to solo specific tracks and clear solos with a keyboard shortcut would be a big time saver. moreover, it would help stay 'in the moment.'

cheers,
-charlie

[J.Wajer]

I have a kind off solution for you:

• Go to the keyboard shortcut editor.
• Go to the Tracks Tab you will notice the Select/Solo/Mute/Record Track 1 - 128 fields.
• Bind multiple Solos to the same keyboardkey by pressing "No" each time PMX asks you to replace the key.

This works. Not sure if it is any help, but if you work with a fixed template.....it might