Disabled midi tracks being unhidden when changing mixer visibility configs

Cubase
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Hi all

Bit of odd behaviour happening and can’t figure out what is going on. As per title, disabled midi tracks that are hidden in the project window, unhide themselves when changing visibility configs in the mixer.

In the clip below

Mixer 1 and project are synced. configs are only in the mixer. No configs have been set in for the project window

10 midi tracks (5 of which are disabled), 10 inst tracks (5 of which are disabled), 10 group channels. There are 3 configs for each of those track types.

Disabling the inst and midi tracks in the project makes them disappear from the mixer as expected. However, changing any visibility config makes the disabled midi tracks reappear in the project window. This includes if ‘Midi’ has been removed from the filters of the ‘instrument’ config for example, although this shouldn’t make a difference.

The disabled Instrument tracks behave normally and do not reappear when changing any config.

Any reason I’ve missed why this should be happening or is this a bug?

Thanks for the help!

2

Just a bump… unfortunately didn’t get any responses first time around but still curious as to why this is happening. It’s quite annoying!!

3

I tried to reproduce what you are describing in Cubase 12 but could not. Disabled tracks did not show up in the Mix Console after changing Channel Visibility Configuration presets. Perhaps I did or have something different from you.

4

Thanks, apologies if I didn’t explain well enough. Its hidden midi tracks within the project window which is the issue. The screen rec should show whats going on.

If you change a visibility config within the mixer (while the two are synced), any midi tracks that are hidden via ‘Hide Disabled Tracks’ or deselected in the visibility tab suddenly reappear in the project window - even if the visibility configs have nothing to do with midi tracks.

Any disabled instrument tracks are not affected, which is the expected behaviour.

I’ve tested in C13 and 14

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I watched your video but it was hard to grasp what was going on. Partially because the video appeared to be playing double time.
Maybe a carefully written step by step would help in trying to reproduce the issue you’re experiencing.

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Sure thing,

(Yes I double sped the video to make it fit size requirements, apologies)

Set up:

  • Project and mix window are synced
  • project is populated with 10 midi tracks, 10 instrument tracks, 10 group tracks
  • Any number of the Midi and Inst tracks are disabled
  • Create two mixer visibility configs (e.g one showing groups, one hiding groups, doesn’t need to have anything to do with midi tracks)
  • Hide Disabled tracks command in project window

Then…

  • Select one of the visibility configs in mix window

Result…

  • Any disabled Midi tracks reappear in the arrange window. (The disabled inst tracks remain hidden as is expected.)

Thats as clear as I can make it. As I said, tested in C13 and 14

Thanks for the help.