Multiple "SOLO" and "UN-MUTE"
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 1:03 pm
Hi there
I have recently moved to Audacity Version 2.3 from an earlier version (2.1 I think).
With the earlier version if I wanted to SOLO several tracks all I did was click on the SOLO button for each track and it "added to the SOLO's" - however with the current version if I simply click on another SOLO it "un - SOLO's" the previous track. Yes I know I can hold SHIFT down as I click on the new SOLO and it becomes an "Added SOLO" but TWO things - (1) This is a pain having to do an extra key press when you are working quickly for a radio deadline and (2) this is not the way my Soundcraft mixer works - so I am used to "adding SOLO's" with one click (SOLO's are Latching and UN-Latching)
Is there a way in the settings to "revert" to the previous system that was in effect in earlier versions of Audacity?
Also naturally when SOLO -ing a track it MUTES all the others as it should - great! However the way I work - adding "SPOT - SFX" to a Radio Soap Drama is to drag and drop the SPOT SFX onto the Audacity Main Screen = where it becomes a new track - I often the SOLO this new track and do some "production work" on it EG. Normalise, EQ, Reverb and Trim. I then "Copy" (CTRL+C) the section and "Paste" (CTRL+V) it into my SPOT-SFX track where I "Time Shift" to exactly the right place relevant to the Dialogue Tracks
I then delete the track I had dragged and dropped. Fine so far. However with the previous version as soon as I deleted the temporary track - which had been SOLO-ed for "production work" it automatically "UN-MUTED" all the other tracks. Now in this version I have to key CTRL+SHIFT+U to "UN-MUTE ALL". So again is there a way in settings to "restore" the previous "actions"?
Cheers peeps
BlueSkyBri
I have recently moved to Audacity Version 2.3 from an earlier version (2.1 I think).
With the earlier version if I wanted to SOLO several tracks all I did was click on the SOLO button for each track and it "added to the SOLO's" - however with the current version if I simply click on another SOLO it "un - SOLO's" the previous track. Yes I know I can hold SHIFT down as I click on the new SOLO and it becomes an "Added SOLO" but TWO things - (1) This is a pain having to do an extra key press when you are working quickly for a radio deadline and (2) this is not the way my Soundcraft mixer works - so I am used to "adding SOLO's" with one click (SOLO's are Latching and UN-Latching)
Is there a way in the settings to "revert" to the previous system that was in effect in earlier versions of Audacity?
Also naturally when SOLO -ing a track it MUTES all the others as it should - great! However the way I work - adding "SPOT - SFX" to a Radio Soap Drama is to drag and drop the SPOT SFX onto the Audacity Main Screen = where it becomes a new track - I often the SOLO this new track and do some "production work" on it EG. Normalise, EQ, Reverb and Trim. I then "Copy" (CTRL+C) the section and "Paste" (CTRL+V) it into my SPOT-SFX track where I "Time Shift" to exactly the right place relevant to the Dialogue Tracks
I then delete the track I had dragged and dropped. Fine so far. However with the previous version as soon as I deleted the temporary track - which had been SOLO-ed for "production work" it automatically "UN-MUTED" all the other tracks. Now in this version I have to key CTRL+SHIFT+U to "UN-MUTE ALL". So again is there a way in settings to "restore" the previous "actions"?
Cheers peeps
BlueSkyBri