Strange, But Apparently Happening .. In The Twilight Zone of Late Recording Hours ...

I am recording subsequent tracks ... first, some audio from a hardware keyboard, and another from a VST instrument. My third track is audio from hardware, and in the silent parts, when I solo THAT track, I can faintly here audio that was previously recorded on my separate Omnisphere track. Surely I'm doing something wrong.

But what?? 

No doubt, someone out there knows.

Chappel


Is Dim Solo enabled? Dim Solo reduces the volume of non-soloed tracks but doesn't mute them completely.

Dim Solo? Any relation to Han Solo?


Lol. Thanks, for your reply. I've obviously just learned about dim solo. I'll investigate it when I get to tracking again. However, I did eliminate the silent section of my soloed track, and the other track sounds were gone.

I appreciate your help!


Jon



** I saw the following written, concerning dim solo, and wonder, if I am understanding it properly, whether this will in fact eliminate the unwanted [recorded] track sound that is appearing to be embedded in my totally soloed track: 

"When is Solo not really a solo command?
If you just want to hear a track you are working on above other tracks, but not have to solo it completely, use Dim - Solo in Sonar. When this is activated (click the Dim - Solo button) tracks that use Solo will automatically cause other tracks to dim their db values by -6db -12db or -18db."

Chappel


Let's say you have 5 audio tracks and you want to solo one and not hear the others. You don't want Dim Solo on for that. But if you want to hear the other tracks, but not as loud, when one is soloed, you want Dim Solo on. The amount that Dim Solo attenuates the volume of non-soloed audio tracks can be configured to be louder or quieter.

Are you using multiple layers in the soloed tracks? Do any of the tracks have sends to buses? 

I understand the dim function, now, and have never used it. I'm pretty much starting with everything as it comes up by default in Sonar normal template: I've recorded no multi-layered tracks, nor used any sends going to special buses. effects are in the track bus.

I have three simple tracks: track 1:hardware audio, track two: Omnisphere, and track 3: hardware audio. 

The Omnisphere audio was coming up on the third track during a pause in third track audio, when the second track plays. It's barely audible, but nevertheless audible. Track one continues to play throughout the entire piece, but is never heard playing on the third track, as Omnisphere is. [I do have the input echo engaged for Omnisphere, only.] 

It all seems a bit odd that this second track recording bleeds over to the third track. And I only noticed it because I exclusively soloed the third track. The first track overwhelms any audible trace of it as I listen to it all in my headphones.

Jon

Try bouncing the synth track to an audio track, then mute or archive the original track. See if the new audio track bleeds over... or not.
I can't think of why it does this. Can you reproduce it in another project?