Channel Control Area

The channel control area is located on the left waveform in the wave window. The channel control area allows you to select channels, and mute and solo single channels of multichannel audio files
Figure 1. Channel control area of a stereo audio file
Figure 2. Channel control area for channel clusters of a multichannel audio file
Mute

Mutes the channel cluster. This only affects playback, not rendering.

Solo

Solos the channel cluster. This only affects playback, not rendering.

Fold/Unfold Channel Cluster

Allows you to fold and unfold individual channel clusters.