Ableton/Live/UG/18 Mixing/06 Soloing and Cueing
- Solo mutes all other tracks, keeping each soloed track's own output and pan. With Solo in Place (Solo button context menu, or the Options menu as default), return tracks stay audible.
- Soloing a return mutes other tracks' main outputs but still plays what they send to it.
- Cueing replaces solo with DJ-style preview: hear a track in headphones before the audience does. It needs at least two stereo outputs on the audio interface. The controls are on the Main track with the mixer and In/Out shown:
- 1 - Main Out and 2 - Cue Out — choose separate interface outputs; if they're missing, check the Audio Settings.
- 3 - Solo/Cue Mode — set to Cue. Solo buttons become headphone Cue buttons that send the track to Cue Out, while the Track Activator still controls the main mix.
- 5 - Cue Volume — the cue output level.
- With cueing on, browser previews also play through Cue Out.