Sometimes the Solo button gets switched to Solo Safe mode and this is not something I have done. I have no clue how it gets turned on. When this happens, while I can toggle it off and do a save, the next time I open the project, the solo safe is back.

Is this a bug or is there a way to turn Solo Safe off so that it will not reset to Solo Safe mode?

Thanks

I've done some experimenting. It seems that if I have audio tracks and open Logic > Settings, it sets one of the audio tracks to Solo Safe Mode. Sometimes it does this to the track in focus but at other times it will impact an audio track that is not in focus. It appears tto be somewhat random.

This does not seem to happen with Instrument tracks.

I suspect there are other causes though because I've run into this in the past and I seldom go to Logic > Settings.

Once this occurs, while I can turn Safe Solo off, it will reset the next time I open the Project.

Clearly this is a bug.

This issue has gotten worse. Sometimes when I create new audio tracks some of them open with Solo Safe mode active. I've also had previous audio tracks get set to Solo Safe active just because I opened the project. They were not in Solo Safe mode when the project was last closed.

I am afraid to open other projects now for fear that they will contract this odd and annoying behavior. Once this issue arises, it runs rampant and as stated, while I can keep toggling Solo Safe mode off, the next time the project is opened, they are all back to Solo Safe mode.

So it seems this is a known bug going back to at least 2008. Why has Apple not fixed this issue? That is 17 years. Might be time to dump Logic. I'm not a big MIDI guy so the argument that Logic is the best for MIDI is a moot point for me.

I'm surprised no one here has encountereed this.

OK, I believe I have isolated the root cause of this Solo Safe Mode issue.

When you create a new Project in Logic, Logic automatically creates a "Preview" audio track and a "Click" Auxiliary track. Even if you create the project with a single Instrument track.

For some reason the "Preview" channel strip got deleted in the Projects I have run into this issue with.

I know there was a bug bag in release 10.5 something where aaudio tracks were getting deleted randomly and buses were being reassigned. My guess is that somehow that bug randomly deleted my "Preview" audio channel strip.

As to why this has not been resolved by Apple - my guess is that they do not see this as a bug. People should not be manually removing the "Preview" audio channel strip.

The "Preview" audio channel strip is used for previewing audio from the Project Audio Browser or Audio File Editor, allowing you to set volume, add effects, and select separate outputs. It seems when this channel strip disappears, Logic randomly anoints another audio track to take its place so it either grabs the highest existing audio track or the next time you create audio tracks it will grab one of them instead. And since users are not supposed to be deleting this channel strip, there may be a bug once the channel strip is deleted such that the audio channel strip that Logic chooses is indeed completely random. But again, to them, this is likely not seen as a bug because users should never deleted the Preview audio channel.

Hope this info helps someone in the future. So far it appears I amy be the only person in GS that has encountered this issue.