I've read several threads here on solo, the manual, and tried everything, but can't find an efficient toggle approach for solo'ing a MIDI track from the Tracks window.
In solo mode (with auxes, inputs, etc solo exempt), I've read I should be able to option (alt) click on the play enable button on a MIDI track to solo(that works) and then alt-click to un-solo - but the latter actually doesn't work. It requires ctrl-click on the selected track, but that leaves the selected track disabled and just enables every other track. It then takes a second click to turn that track back on. That's three different click combinations just to solo/unsolo a track - 1) alt-click to solo, 2) ctrl-click to exclusive enable everything else, 3) click to enable selected. If it were one modifier key and 3 clicks, that would be better at least.
The other problem with this play-enable state approach is that MIDI playback stops on the selected track until the next note is triggered. Even though MIDI is a triggered event, solo shouldn't interrupt the MIDI stream, so either I'm doing something wrong, or DP just has a different idea of solo for MIDI.
I like the ability to solo a fronted editor in solo mode, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to just solo a track from the track view. I typically use fronted editors in the context of the full mix rather than solo'd. Maybe that's the key though - just use fronted editors and toggle solo mode instead of trying to solo a track in the Tracks view (it does work well, so that will be my approach for now - still would be nice to do the same with a single key command for selected tracks in the tracks view for quickly reviewing parts of a large score).
How are others using solo with large scoring templates?
MIDI track solo - best approach?
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