Help with Mixer Mute & Solo buttons

Question

I'm working on a mixer where there are individual mute and solo buttons for each track of a drum machine.
I've got a setup where the Mute buttons send an NRPN messages that mute individual voices.  The solo buttons are supercontrols with all mute buttons as subcontrols, except the mute button of the selected solo track.
It works okay, but I'm trying to figure out to get these expected behaviors.

1) mute and solo button are exclusive per track; when solo is on, the mute button turns off and vice versa

2) when solo is selected for one track and then selected for a second track, both tracks remain un-muted (additive solo tracks)

3) if #2 is impossible (highly likely!), then at least being able to exclusively solo tracks; track one is solo'd, then soloing track two de-solos track one

I've tried various combinations, but just can't seem to get it:

--I've used a knob as a supercontrol between solo and mute buttons (one per track), but the result is when one track is muted the others are solo'd.

--I've used a knob as a supercontrol with the solo buttons as subs, but then muting one track mutes them all except the last track, whose solo button is activated.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

 

Comments

Sorry, for some reason I haven't been getting alerts on these. Will answer shortly.

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Unfortunately, there's no way to do this in MD (yet). The solo-mute combination is not contemplated in MIDI Designer, because it requires a button to be part of two button groups at once: the solo-mute combination, and the mute-mute-mute-mute combination (for instance).

The best way to do this, really, is to have the DAW or MIDI target feed back, if possible. If not, you could do it with custom programming using MJDJ (free for Desktop), but you'd need to be a programmer.

Let me know if either of these options might work for you...