speed comping and automatic track soloing in X3

I'm trying to get to grips with speed comping in X3.  When I select a clip and turn on speed comping the comped track is automatically solo'd.  I'd actually prefer it not to be solo'd and just hear it in conjunction with the rest of the mix.  I know I can use dim solo, but I don't want to hear an attenuated version of the other tracks I just want to hear them exactly as they are in the mix.  I know I can also manually deselect solo on the comped track after I've gone into speed comp mode but the moment I move onto the next clip solo is automatically re-enabled.  This is driving me mad!
 
Is there a way of getting speed comping to NOT automatically solo the comped track?
 
Surely I can't be the only one who wants to work like this!

Thanks anyway for the suggestion brundlefly, and thanks for the Edited update, I had been trying your suggestion without any luck!  I find it's hard to believe it's just me who is struggling with this.  A zero db option on the dim solo gain in the preferences would be the obvious fix - but that ain't there!
 

Only workround I can think of is select the-6dB option in dim solo and then drop the comping track level by 6dB. That'd work wouldn't it?

What is speed comp'ing

It took a little work to get my head around "speed comping", but once I started using it (after watching a video on implementation), I quite like it.

Thanks for the replies.

But when I am comp'ing, I wanna hear the rest of the track too! Oh well, I'll give it a whirl and see. Maybe it's best this way.

Huh... that's a weird way for them to set things. Is there not a setting in Preferences or the Track View Options to disable that?
 
One thing you could try is before a comping session multi select and solo the rest of the tracks. If they get unsoloed automatically maybe the Exclusive Solo option could be used somehow to keep them audible (but I've never used it and forget exactly how it functions but it's worth a look).
 
Cheers.

Keith Albright [Cakewalk]
Using audition mode for speed comping relies on audition mode's solo (which it's always done).
We went above and added the dim solo option to let you hear in context.
 
If you fully want to hear in context, then use the mouse and click the segments you want while playing.  It's not quite as fast as the keyboard, but it's a way to accomplish what you're after.

Hi Keith,
 
This does work, but unless I am doing something wrong as soon as I select other tracks to hear I lose the ability to use the arrow keys to move among the takes/clips in the auditioned track.  It seems like a better solution would be to simply use the standard "rules" for soloing - if I want to hear just the auditioned track I can use the solo button on that track before I play back in audition mode.  Otherwise, I hear all the tracks that would play normally.  I would be curious to hear if others feel the current system is preferred for some reason, because I honestly don't see the benefit.  

Agree with everything here. In fact its sort of stopped me from using speed comping which could be great otherwise. 0db dim solo option fixes it very simply.

Same here... I guess it's a workflow/usage thing - I tend to comp while listening to the finer details of that track, so I want to hear it without a whole lot of anything else audible.   That said, a 0dB DimSolo would seem to be a simple option to cater to both sides.

So I did a little more testing and discovered that the speed comping feature has (in my opinion) very odd behavior that complicates things.  It behaves in very different ways depending on if "dim" is selected before speed comping starts or after.  
 
Select dim before speed comping - Select the track(s) you want to audition and click shift+space.  On each selected track the solo light turns green and we hear all the tracks with the non-soloed ones attenuated.  CTRL clicking on a track will add or remove it from the "soloed" group as indicated by both the volume and the solo button. This is all quite logical and effective.
 
Start speed comping without dim enabled - You hear just whatever tracks were selected before hitting CTRL+space.  So far so good. But "solo" is not lit on any track.  Why?  Now click dim. Nothing changes.  All the non-soloed tracks are silent.  Solo lights are still all off. 
 
So the bottom line for me is - click dim first.  Not doing so likely explains why some of us had trouble and others did not with this feature.  But I can't help but wonder if this differing behavior is intended or a bug.  Perhaps there is a logical reason for this, but it seems unnecessarily complicated to my little brain.