User`s guide

Chapter 6: Working with Tracks 61
To solo a track:
1 Click the Solo button on the track. The
button is highlighted and all other tracks
are muted.
2 Click the Solo button again to turn off
the solo function.
To unlatch solo buttons:
1 Choose Setups > Preferences and click
Operation.
2 Deselect the Latch Solo Buttons option
and click Done. With this option disabled,
pressing a Solo button mutes all tracks ex-
cept the track you have just soloed.
Solo Safe Mode
Pro Tools also allows you to solo safe a
track. This prevents the track from being
muted even if you solo other tracks. This
feature is useful for tracks such as Auxiliary
Inputs that are being used as effects re-
turns, allowing the effects track to remain
in a mix even when other tracks are soloed.
It is also useful to solo-safe MIDI tracks so
that their playback is not affected when
you solo audio tracks.
To solo safe a track:
■ Command-click (Macintosh) or Control-
click (Windows) the Solo button on the de-
sired track. This prevents the track from be-
ing muted even if you solo other tracks.
To return a solo safe track to normal:
■ Command-click (Macintosh) or Control-
click (Windows) the Solo button on the
track again.
Mute Button
The mute button silences a chosen track.
More than one track can be muted at one
time. If Operations > Mute Frees Voice is
enabled, muting a track will allocate its
voice to the next highest priority virtual
track in your session.
To mute a track:
■ Click the Mute button on the track. The
track will appear grayed-out and be muted.
To unmute a track:
■ Click the Mute button again.
For information on the relationship be-
tween muting and voice assignments, see
“Virtual Tracks, Voices, and Track Priority”
on page 54.
Adjusting Track Width
The Pro Tools Narrow Mix Window com-
mand allows you to view all tracks/chan-
nels in the Mix window at a reduced width
to conserve screen space in a large session.
To reduce the width of tracks in the Mix
window:
■ Select Display > Narrow Mix Window.
To display tracks at normal width:
■ Deselect Display > Narrow Mix Window.