Garageband '11 has spontaneously muted all my tracks.

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Garageband '11 has spontaneously muted all my tracks.

The only way I can listen to the song I'm recording is to individually SOLO each track. I've looked up this issue and others have had it as far back as 2008.

Tried importing song, track by track, to a new song but tracks are wobbly - sounding.

Apparently one of the ways this issue occurs is if you solo a track and delete the track before un-soloing, GB "remembers" the solo, and keeps it across the board. I've already saved and closed the song, so I can't un-delete the track - if that's even what the problem is.

Anyway, pretty frustrating as the only way I can now listen to this song is to solo every single track - then if I want to solo one track, I have to un-solo allllll the trackkkkkkks.

All other songs in my GB catalog are unaffected - just this one song.

Been using GB '11 since January, first time encountering this issue.

Using MAC OSZ V. 10.6.8

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 22, 2012 5:41 PM

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Answer 1

sanjampet

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Jul 23, 2012 7:27 AM in response to MacLikeMe

Try this, go to track in menu bar click "show track lock".

This will lock all tracks (green)

Then highlight all tracks (Pink)

Go to menu bar Track and click show track and this should unlock all tracks. You can do this by single track as well.

I hope I understood your question and this helps.

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MacLikeMe Author

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Jul 23, 2012 1:35 PM in response to sanjampet

Thanks for trying, sanjampet.

But selecting "show track lock" didn't lock all my tracks, or any of them.

In other words, "show lock tracks" shows you which tracks are locked - it doesn't lock or unlock them.

2nd step---

Highlighting all my tracks doesn't produce anything resembling pink. The tracks just turn a darker shade of themselves, in this case burnt orange and purple.

And, third step, there isn't any "show track" to be clicked.

Again, thanks for trying.

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sanjampet

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Jul 24, 2012 10:51 AM in response to sanjampet

under track in the menu bar, there is "show track", after clicking itthe track lock will show up to the right of the 2 "no effectcs button". When I meant highlight I meant just the track lock button, one or all. To unlock you just click show track lock to undo.

Your colors may be different, but there is no mistaking which ones are selected.

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Dec 12, 2012 7:25 PM in response to MacLikeMe

I had this problem and solved it!

I chose the first track and went under the "track" menu and chose "duplicate track". This created a new duplicate track right under the original. The new track was "soloed". I un-soloed it and wallah! All the tracks were unmuted! I then deleted the duplicated track and all's well.

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MacLikeMe Author

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Feb 26, 2013 1:24 PM in response to MacLikeMe

I just wanted to say - just to complete this - that I ended up just scrapping the track. Whatever was wrong wasn't worth more hours of duplicating tracks or other fixits.

Hadn't happened up to then, and hasn't happened since then.

Ah, well.

Maybe God didn't like my tune! 🙂

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HangTime

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Jul 23, 2012 1:38 PM in response to MacLikeMe

AntoinePancakes wrote:

I've already saved and closed the song, so I can't un-delete the track

you don't have to, just create some tracks and watch for one that's soloed

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Answer 7

Apr 9, 2013 6:07 PM in response to starbucksstew

much thanks! I duplicated the first track and sure enough the new track was soloed! How odd.

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