Solo Safe Mode - How to Disable It Forever and Ever?

Everyone that this has happened to here previously have manually deleted the metronome/klopfgeist channel, which Logic uses to play the metronome - this has a special solo-safe mode for obvious playback regions, and it's normally set to the highest audio intstrument channel.

When the metronome channel has been deleted, Logic has to pick other channels to play the metronome, and resets it to solo-safe mode, and this is probably what you are experiencing.

...same problem here... not sure if it happens in all my projects, but for sure it does in a few. Pretty annoying.

I also have solo safe appear on audio tracks very frequently in older sessions (that have come from Logic 7). This is caused by the audition output which Logic auto-sets to the last audio object available and automatically makes solo-safe. In new sessions this isn't a problem, because it creates an audio object specifically for this (audio 256). But in older sessions I found it kept using the last audio object I had created, and every time I made a new one it would shift without un-solo-safing the previous object. By the time I realised what was happening I has solo-safe tracks all over my mixer.

If this is what's happening to you, fortunately it is very easy to stop. Just manually create a new audio object in the environment and assign it to audio 256. Now Logic will always use this one and won't keep solo-safing your tracks at random. Though I'm afraid you'll have to manually track down any solo-safe objects that have been created already, I haven't yet found a shortcut to toggle solo-safe on multiple objects.

My apologies, one of the big problems with this forum is simply the very broad spectrum of user levels it covers. Those of us who've been using logic since days of yore are so familiar with the environment that it's just second nature to us. But in the last few releases Apple have been trying to minimise user interaction with it in order to make the program more user-friendly. I might add that I believe this to be a mistake as the environment is probably the most powerful MIDI programming tool of any DAW. But I digress.

The environment is an essential part of Logic's inner workings. Every track you work with on the arrange is assigned to an object in the environment. In the case of audio tracks they are assigned to audio objects. The channel strips you see in the mixer page are in fact slightly tweaked representations of these objects.

To access the environment, go to the window menu and select environment. It should by default come up with the mixer page. Each one of the channel strips in this window is an audio object. If you can't see one called 'prelisten' anywhere in the window then you need to create one. Select one of the audio objects by clicking on its label underneath (eg 'Audio 1'). Now hold down alt and drag it to an empty area to create a duplicate. With the duplicate still selected (it turns light grey) look in the inspector box on the left for a parameter called 'Channel'. Click to the right of this for the pull down menu. Select the submenu audio then scroll all the way down until you find audio 256. You have now created a new prelisten. But you will have to manually make it solo-safe now. Hold down control and click on the solo button.

I would also recommend you rename the new object as prelisten, by choosing the text tool from the toolbox in the upper right and clicking on the object label. Also I would suggest that with the object selected, you uncheck the box on the left next to the parameter 'icon'. This makes it impossible to access the object from the arrange window, which should prevent any accidental deletion in the future. I have no idea why apple didn't take this last step in the first place.

Hope that all made sense. Good luck with your first foray into the environment!

Yes - actually, when I said "metronome" channel, I totally meant the "prelisten" channel - hey, it was late, I was tired, etc...

I'm just a little confused, what is an audio object and where is the environment? I think I'm not clear on the phrases you are using but I think your post may be the solution to my issue.

Thanks!

...it makes a lot of sense... Thanks for the tip. I´ll try it ASAP.