Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 869)

82 Part I Media and Project Management
Using the Solo Button to Listen to Individual Tracks
If your sequence contains several audio tracks and you want to listen to a track in
isolation, you can temporarily solo only that track. When you enable a track’s solo
button, all other tracks are automatically muted. However, if other tracks’ solo buttons
are enabled, these tracks still remain soloed. If you enable the solo button on multiple
tracks, all tracks with solo enabled play back, while all other audio tracks in your
sequence are muted.
Note: Solo buttons cannot be automated.
To solo one or more tracks, do one of the following:
m In the Audio Mixer, click the solo button in the track strip for the track you want to solo.
All non-soloed tracks are silenced.
m In the Timeline, click the Audio Controls button to display the mute and solo buttons
for each track, then click the solo button on the audio track you want to solo. All non-
soloed tracks are silenced.
To disable solo on all tracks at once:
m Control-click on the solo button of any track’s track strip in the Audio Mixer, then
choose Reset All Solos from the shortcut menu.
Solo button in the Audio
Mixer
Solo button in the
Timeline
Audio controls button