Soloing and muting tracks and regions

Frequently, you will want and need to solo or mute tracks and regions while editing audio, and frankly, it can be confusing in Logic, because there are so many ways.

Here you see the beginnings of a little blues song I created for this chapter:

Figure 4.1 – My blues song tracks and regions

Mute/solo buttons on the Track Header

On my track header in the preceding screenshot, you can see an M and an S, for mute and solo. If you don't see it, you need to configure the track header, and this is something you will need to know how to do, so let's take advantage of this opportunity to learn how.

If you right-click (or Ctrl-click) in the track header, or simply press Option + T, it brings up a window in which you can choose the things you want to see in the track header, including the Mute and Solo buttons. (If, like me, you find that you frequently have multiple tracks flowing through a channel strip...