[Mike Rivers]

On Mar 19, 6:08 pm, philicorda wrote:

I've been working with a bloke who uses a portable rig with MOTU traveller
+Cubase 4+ behringer headphone amps. He uses a combination of the Cubase4
control room and MOTU soundcard mixer to set up 4 independent
'zero' latency monitoring mixes.

I couldn't figure out how to do solo, though he seemed to get on fine
without it.

Most DAWs do solos by muting everything but what you want to hear, and
most of them do muting not by controlling outputs, but by just not
playing the muted track. That makes it hard to have a solo on one bus
without interrupting everything else. If you want to solo a channel
while setting a mic or adjusting an EQ or compressor that you're going
to record with, that shouldn't be a problem. But if you want to solo a
track in the control room while the band is playing and listening to
themselves on headphones, that probably takes more smarts than I think
Cubase has at this point. But they're pretty clever over there.

Once they figure out that people really want to do this, they'll come
up with a way to do it. Maybe there are some hooks in the driver for
the MOTU interface so that Cubase can control its DSP mixer. But that
would mean that MOTU would have to think of it as well, probably after
Steinberg extended the ASIO model to accommodate controls that don't
involve audio directly.