Hmm, well I thought I had the idea, but there appears another layer I didn't appreciate.

I have MIDI in the melody again and RealTracks elsewhere. As before I've set soloists for choruses 2 through 5 usinf F5 and as before I think, I'm muting the melodt track via F5 through those same choruses ... or I'd intended to. However at present it's not muting and I'm getting no solos.

I went back to the soloist dialog and set Mute melody in middle and it now works as I expect. Now I wonder why the F5 mute didn't work but this does. Is that exppected or do I have something else twisted?

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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