Studio One 6 Mute/Solo FX Channel question

[dblock]

I have an instrument track that has a send going to a reverb. I want to solo that channel to see how it sounds going through the reverb but when I solo the channel the reverb channel gets muted. How can I solo a channel without muting the effects channel it's going to?
Thanks!

[apoclypse]

Yeah. I think you mean Solo Safe? In S1 hold shift and press the solo button until its green on any track and it will keep the audio path on when soloing a tracks. So you would do the on the sends. When you press the Solo button the Solo Safe tracks will turn a pale yellow indicating that they will still receive signal even when you solo a track.

[dblock]

Yeah. I think you mean Solo Safe? In S1 hold shift and press the solo button until its green on any track and it will keep the audio path on when soloing a tracks. So you would do the on the sends. When you press the Solo button the Solo Safe tracks will turn a pale yellow indicating that they will still receive signal even when you solo a track.

Hey apoclypse, Much appreciate the response for sure.
Well yes and no. While holding the shift key while pressing the solo button does stop the fx channel from being muted, all the other channels are still playing too so I can't hear only that channel going through the fx channel without hearing all the other tracks if that makes sense.

[qtheerearranger]

Hey Dblock, I think this is one of the reasons i switched to bus channels only. I havent used FX sends in so long but i remember the solo behavior being different then bus. wish i could elaborate. all i can say is try a bus channel with the above method over an fx channel and see if that works? also make sure your global solo is cleared before you do this maybe thats whats happening is you have previous tracks soloed that your toggling back on.

[dblock]

Hey Dblock, I think this is one of the reasons i switched to bus channels only. I havent used FX sends in so long but i remember the solo behavior being different then bus. wish i could elaborate. all i can say is try a bus channel with the above method over an fx channel and see if that works? also make sure your global solo is cleared before you do this maybe thats whats happening is you have previous tracks soloed that your toggling back on.

Hey qtheerearranger. Thanks for that. Just tried it and it didn't seem to work any differently than using the fx bus. Well, sort of worked as far as keeping the reverbs from muting but I still have to manually mute all the other channels so I don't hear them which is an option but not really what I was looking for.
Much appreciate the response though!

[qtheerearranger]

Did you try the global solo toggle before you did this? You've peaked my curiosity because this is not how my project behaves. working right now and with a bus channel and global solo toggled off when i press solo on my instrument track or any track for that matter that has a send it solos with the send. I'm thinking it could be a setting in advanced -> Console or advanced -> editing**. This is not my area of expertise but this would bother me to all ends and I don't want to see someone have a problem like this when i can help.

[dblock]

Did you try the global solo toggle before you did this? You've peaked my curiosity because this is not how my project behaves. working right now and with a bus channel and global solo toggled off when i press solo on my instrument track or any track for that matter that has a send it solos with the send. I'm thinking it could be a setting in advanced -> Console or advanced -> editing**. This is not my area of expertise but this would bother me to all ends and I don't want to see someone have a problem like this when i can help.

Describing what's happening with your project is a big help. At least now I know it can work if I get the right combo going. I'll be able to get back to it in a couple of hours and really dig into this and see what I'm not doing to set this up right.

[dblock]

Did you try the global solo toggle before you did this? You've peaked my curiosity because this is not how my project behaves. working right now and with a bus channel and global solo toggled off when i press solo on my instrument track or any track for that matter that has a send it solos with the send. I'm thinking it could be a setting in advanced -> Console or advanced -> editing**. This is not my area of expertise but this would bother me to all ends and I don't want to see someone have a problem like this when i can help.

I just got it to work but I'm not sure how. I do know the global solo you mention was key in there somewhere. Just have to figure out what I did right, wrong and in what order.

[qtheerearranger]

glad to know your on the hunt. hope you figure it out. some things can be weird.

[dblock]

glad to know your on the hunt. hope you figure it out. some things can be weird.

You been a great help taking time out to help get me on the right track qtheerearranger. Much appreciate it. I just switched over to Studio One from Cubase and while Studio One has a lot of similarities there are some things like this that I still have to wrestle with.

[sQeetz]

Kind of got tired of Live... subscribed to Studio One and have been trialling it for a couple of days now.
It's kind of a tiring DAW. I don't know how to describe it. In Live I can get going on just like that... but to do the same in Studio One is tiresome and slow like molasses
Cancelled the subscription right now. It's not my thing

[qtheerearranger]

Kind of got tired of Live... subscribed to Studio One and have been trialling it for a couple of days now.
It's kind of a tiring DAW. I don't know how to describe it. In Live I can get going on just like that... but to do the same in Studio One is tiresome and slow like molasses
Cancelled the subscription right now. It's not my thing

as someone who uses studio one i get this. macros are the kiss / curse of the daw. so many of my main key commands are macros I had to find through their public macro upload pool by other users but most importantly the main key commands I use in the piano roll I had to download from someones website. IMHO this will deter 9/10 this will deter people imo and I don't get why they don't implement a lot of the popular ones into the daw to at least let the user see they exist in the key command screen and make it themselves.
- You have to keybind pressing enter in the browser to add an instrument or effect to a track ffs (also needs to be macrod to have them both be the enter key) Im sure theres more efficient ways to do this.) but like why would there not be a default functionality for adding something from the browser outside of drag and drop? Just seems like such an oversight.

For me I started using studio one in v2 and have slowly built up a workflow. I'm on mac and bounce between studio one and logic. I know I will end up on logic soon and I say that as an huge presonus and studio one fan. I mean studio one is way ahead on features and workflow but its way behind on sounds, instruments, effects (logics compressor models came out forever ago and are ages better then fat channels comps, this is a highly subjective and maybe problematic position to take, esp as there isnt 1:1 from each)

My biggest gripe is that there are so many duplicitous ways in which things work. If I have a bus with effects already on it. if i double click it in the inspector the overview for that bus appears. if there are 0 effects on that bus and I double click the bus (in the title bar where it says bus 1 for example ifyou havent named your bus yet) nothing happens. Adding insert with the key command doesnt give you a folder view but if you do the same thing for an instrument you can see your folders and they give you different windows.

And in the 6.2 update they did something that i dislike a lot which I recognize is a very niche problem. but they made it so when you click scale lock on the piano roll it looks like ur key is c major. so let says say im in e major. E3 looks like c3 on the keyboard. I didnt use this function because I lacked music theory I used this function because it was quick. its just such a mind eff for me personally to think of e3 as c3 etc. I wouldnt hate this if they just took it a step further like cubase and ableton with scale fold but its become unusable to me. I use to just be able to drag notes and keep them in scale but see the original key. unless im zoomed in really close and making more then a 16th note in length i cant even see the note names on the notes.

rant i know i will get flamed for but I love the daw. Its workflow is overall next to none. But v5 started to get bloated and v6 is kinda bloated imo. Like you I cant quite put my finger on it. I can put a finger on a few things as described above between a new user or someone whos used it for a long time. but i think these are just normal gripes. I wish I could describe it better.