How to solo a child track while parent track is muted?

[Anshul999]

Sometimes I want to solo a child track within a folder where the parent track is muted. But to do this, I have to either unmute the parent track or solo the parent track as well, otherwise I can't listen to the audio. So, is there any way to solo a child track and listen to it, without having to change the parent track? i.e., the parent track should stay muted but the child track's solo would ignore that temporarily, and then on unsolo it will again be muted.

Thanks!

[jrengmusic]

Group Child and Parent SOLO (master/slave)

[Anshul999]

Originally Posted by jrengmusic

Group Child and Parent SOLO (master/slave)

Hmm that would work I guess but it's still a lot of work to do for each project and each set of folder tracks. Is there any other way? Something that could be assigned a mouse modifier perhaps? That would work really well.

[mlprod]

Originally Posted by Anshul999

Hmm that would work I guess but it's still a lot of work to do for each project and each set of folder tracks. Is there any other way? Something that could be assigned a mouse modifier perhaps? That would work really well.

Nope, work around it.

[jrk]

It's scriptable of course... shouldn't be too hard to solo the parent of a solo-ed track...

[Anshul999]

Originally Posted by jrk

It's scriptable of course... shouldn't be too hard to solo the parent of a solo-ed track...

I suppose. I'm a total noob at scripting though - takes me a lot of time to even edit existing scripts to suit my needs. I'll learn more in-depth scripting when I have the time.
But also, I was hoping for something that could be a mouse-modifier :/ So I can just click on the track and have it solo-ed, rather than first select the track and then press a hotkey.

[jrk]

Well, you can assign a script to a mouse modifier... so with a script like this:

track = BR_TrackAtMouseCursor(contextOut, positionOut );
 
SetMediaTrackInfo_Value(track,"I_SOLO",1);
depth =  GetTrackDepth(track);

while (depth>0)
(
 track = GetParentTrack(track);
 SetMediaTrackInfo_Value(track,"I_SOLO",1);
 depth =  GetTrackDepth(track);
);

assigned to an appropriate mouse modifier (such as TCP alt-double-click, or whatever) you can solo a track and its parent(s) easily.

(I think the SWS extension gets you BR_TrackAtMouseCursor ? )

[flipotto]

Originally Posted by jrk

Well, you can assign a script to a mouse modifier... so with a script like this:

track = BR_TrackAtMouseCursor(contextOut, positionOut );
 
SetMediaTrackInfo_Value(track,"I_SOLO",1);
depth =  GetTrackDepth(track);

while (depth>0)
(
 track = GetParentTrack(track);
 SetMediaTrackInfo_Value(track,"I_SOLO",1);
 depth =  GetTrackDepth(track);
);

assigned to an appropriate mouse modifier (such as TCP alt-double-click, or whatever) you can solo a track and its parent(s) easily.

(I think the SWS extension gets you BR_TrackAtMouseCursor ? )

I pasted this into ReaScript Dev Env
and got error on save

while (depth>0)

Line 8: ')' expected (to close ') at line 6) near '='

[Anshul999]

Originally Posted by flipotto

I pasted this into ReaScript Dev Env
and got error on save

while (depth>0)

Line 8: ')' expected (to close ') at line 6) near '='

Yup I'm getting the same error. Total noob at coding here, so I'd appreciate any help at fixing it. Also, would this script work for multiple depths of a folder? Say if the track I'm soloing is at the third or fourth level, then? It would have to solo each parent track above it I think.

[jrk]

it's an EEL script. Not LUA.

(Sorry, I should have said...)

Save it as your_name_here.eel

[jrk]

Originally Posted by Anshul999

Also, would this script work for multiple depths of a folder? Say if the track I'm soloing is at the third or fourth level, then? It would have to solo each parent track above it I think.

Yes. It does.

[flipotto]

Originally Posted by jrk

it's an EEL script. Not LUA.

(Sorry, I should have said...)

Save it as your_name_here.eel

Oops... silly me.
Could it be done in LUA as well?

[Anshul999]

Originally Posted by jrk

it's an EEL script. Not LUA.

(Sorry, I should have said...)

Save it as your_name_here.eel

Thank you so much! Saved it as .eel and works perfectly now. Assigned to mouse modifiers for TCP and MCP, and works as expected now!

[jrk]

Originally Posted by flipotto

Could it be done in LUA as well?

Of course:

local track = reaper.BR_TrackAtMouseCursor()
if track then
	reaper.SetMediaTrackInfo_Value(track,"I_SOLO",1)
	local depth =  reaper.GetTrackDepth(track)

	while depth>0 do
		track = reaper.GetParentTrack( track )
		reaper.SetMediaTrackInfo_Value(track,"I_SOLO",1)
		depth =  reaper.GetTrackDepth(track)
	end
end