From the manual:

Solo. As soon as any Solo button is pressed, the Solo Master button lights up in the Control Strip area. With this button all selected Solos are switched off and on again. Solo operates as Solo-in-Place, post fader style, as known from common mixing desks. A typical limitation for mixing desks, Solo working only globally and only for the Main Out, does not exist in TotalMix. Solo is always activated for the current submix only.

In your screenshot it seems the current submix is ADAT 3, so Solo will only work there.

Hi Matthias,

Thanks for your quick reply, but unfortunately I still don' understand how solo works in TotalMix FX. I should have stated, that I read the manual, watched all related tutorials and videos and tried searching the forum with no answers to my problem.

How can you tell, that ADAT 3 is the current submix and what does that mean in this case? I am in Free Routing Mode exactly for the reason to avoid only being able to solo one submix.
If the current submix is ADAT 3 as you say, then why can I only solo it when I also Mute it. You can see in my second image, that solo does nothing by itself on ADAT 3.

I probably still don't exactly understand how solo works in TotalMix FX, but to simplify my question, what do I need to do to be able to Solo channels just like I can Mute channels? Because Mute works just like I'd expect it. If I mute any channel it will not go to the Hardware Outputs. If I Solo it nothing happens except the Solo lights up, but everything is still coming out of the Hardware Outputs.

Thanks for your help!

Balazs

Hi Waedi,
On my computer, in Free Routing Mode if I have Solo turned off in the Control Strip it will still light up, but dimmed when I press solo on any Software Playback channels. I must admit this is also confusing to me. What does it mean when it is turned off yet still lights up dim orange?

What do you mean I did not turn it on? Is'nt it turned on when it is lit up in orange? Even in your image it's obviously on (unless it works in reverse than I would expect it).
If it is grey then it does absolutely nothing even when I press mute first. I would expect it to be off when grey.

In these images which one is considered on and which one off?

Image 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hq9sb6v20tenn … 1.png?dl=0

Image 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ou74bor3jht8t … 2.png?dl=0

That's what I thought so in my initial image it was ON (brighter orange).

With that out of the way it still does not solve my problem unfortunately. The only difference it makes when turned on is, that I can solo if I Mute the channel first which is very strange.

And it works exactly the same in Submix Routing Mode. Which is not an option for me anyway since I am monitoring Dolby Atmos (12 channels) and I want to see all faders up at unity gain at the same time and not by choosing them one by one.

Waedi, thanks for taking the time to clear that up! Does Solo work on your computer as intended?
When Control Strip Solo is turned ON and you press Solo on a channel, does it mute all other channels on the Hardware Out? If not, then pleas explain to me what exactly it does and what is it's purpose other then soloing that single channel and muting everything that is not soloed?

Upgraded to 1.83, but no change unfortunately.

Should I contact support? I would just like to find out if there is maybe something wrong in my system or just my settings are wrong?

I should probably write down the way I intend to use it to clear things up. I basically got a Digiface USB, ARC USB and TotalMix FX as a monitor controller for Dolby Atmos. I route my 12 channels (7.1.4) DAW outputs and software audio outputs to Rouge Amoeba Loopback as my system audio and that goes out to 12 ADAT channels through the Digiface USB to my converters. Everything works fine in TotalMix FX as the monitor controller, I can change the volume of all 12 channels at the same time, I can mute each channel individually or in groups. The only thing that is weird, that I can only solo channels when they are muted. If mute is not on then basically nothing happens besides the lights turning orange.

I hope that clears up my out of the ordinary use case, but I would still like to solve this somehow

Thanks for anyone that can help!

Thanks for looking into it Waedi!

So this is it? No way to make Solo work like solo usually works without muting everything first? I mean Logic for example also mutes everything whaen soloing, but it does it automatically when I press solo. Also the "solo is more powerful than the mute" is true in Logic, but I can still solo things as well without me having to mute everything first.

Is there no workaround to this behaviour of the mixer?

Hi all
Cannot reproduce the issue.
Babyface pro, macOS 13.5, driver v4.08, Totalmix FX 1.83
Maybe it would be good to do a total reset of Totalmix and begin from scratch again?