Bitwig

Elias1957 · Post by **Elias1957** » Wed Jul 08, 2020 7:15 pm

When soloing a channel within a multi out instrument like Drum Machine other channels outside the Drum Machine group are not muted.
To soloing this multi out channel I've to solo the Drum Machine group.

For me this is a bug

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Wed Jul 08, 2020 10:37 pm

Elias1957 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2020 7:15 pm When soloing a channel within a multi out instrument like Drum Machine other channels outside the Drum Machine group are not muted.
To soloing this multi out channel I've to solo the Drum Machine group.

For me this is a bug

No, it's not a bug. You're soloing channels INSIDE a device, just like you would with Layer, Selector, multi-out VST, etc. It's consistent and logical.

Elias1957 · Post by **Elias1957** » Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:15 am

Sry, soloing a channel in the most DAWs (I don't not all of them but many) is ... solo. BWS behavior is not straight forward, solo depending on channel type? Strange. So they should name the button "Mute other channels in this device" and not "Solo".

The solo button in the pad e.g. is not what I'm talking about, here I see the aspect to solo or mute a part of the device is really clear, but in the Mixconsole?

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:47 am

Elias1957 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:15 am Sry, soloing a channel in the most DAWs (I don't not all of them but many) is ... solo. BWS behavior is not straight forward, solo depending on channel type? Strange. So they should name the button "Mute other channels in this device" and not "Solo".

The solo button in the pad e.g. is not what I'm talking about, here I see the aspect to solo or mute a part of the device is really clear, but in the Mixconsole?

No, it's not 'channel type'. It's a device.

Say you have Kontakt with multiple instruments loaded in it. If you solo one of the instruments INSIDE Kontakt, do all the other VSTs on other tracks in your project get muted? No. Same thing. Same logic.

I think you're simply confused because Bitwig - unlike other DAWs - actually displays the inter-device channels in Mixer (for Drum Machine, Layer & Selector containers if they're first in the chain), but notice that those channels look a bit different - there'd a different icon (2 arrows pointing down) and they're slimmer, which indicates those are channels WITHIN the device, not really mixer channels.

mrfrenkie · Post by **mrfrenkie** » Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:53 am

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:48 pm

Disabling local solo seems to do the trick. Thanks! This has been bugging me for a while

Elias1957 · Post by **Elias1957** » Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:20 pm

Yes, thanks for the screenshot, now it works as expected

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:30 am

mrfrenkie wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:53 am

Thanks, I had no idea this is what it does!

Elias1957 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:20 pm Yes, thanks for the screenshot, now it works as expected

Sorry, I was wrong apparently. The behaviour still made sense to me and was consistent across the board, I just wasn't aware it can be changed. This should've been an option in Settings, too.

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Fri Jul 10, 2020 2:18 pm

antic604 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:30 am This should've been an option in Settings, too.

+1. That's the first place I checked to change this behaviour, it never occurred to me to check the Studio I/O.

senseiprod · Post by **senseiprod** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 8:51 am

mrfrenkie wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:53 am

Thanks for solving a mistery for me

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