Muting A Track Without Muting It's Send Track

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I imagine there is some clever send setup to achieve this, but i’m not clever enough to work it out.

Say I have a track with a beat, and then i send it to track i’ll call beatFX (with keep source) that has some fx on it. I want them both to play at the same time most of the time.

Now, can I make only beatFX be audible, with beat track being muted? I know I can click mute source in send dialog, but this is fiddly to do while the song is playing. Is there a send setup so i can just mute/unmute tracks and get the same result?

Just to make it clear, here’s a diagram. On the top is the source, the track with the beat. Then it gets split with a send. If I mute beat track, I mute at point a. If I mute send track, I mute at point b. If I select ‘mute source’, I mute at point c. I need to be able to mute point c on the fly, without hunting the split and then clicking it’s mute source button.

…[src]
…|
…a
…|
…|\
…|…\
…|…\
…c…b
…|…\

If this is not possible, a nifty solution would be to make keep source/mute source viewable in the mixer (as is already possible with some params of some other dsps). You right click the send audio box and choose view->keep/mute source. It could be a switch, instead of two buttons. Consider this a feature suggestion! :D

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You could try sending source ‘a’ to two different send tracks (one with effects, and one without). The first send device should be ‘keep source’ and the second will be ‘mute source.’ Then you can simply mute whichever send track you don’t want to hear.

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Thanks. Seems this was a real simple question. Doh!

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You could also use a Gainer device with the gain set to -INF and turn it on and off with pattern commands (XF01 and XF00).

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Hey, thanks! That sounds very useful!