Does muting tracks reduce disk streaming?

Cubase
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Something I’ve always wondered:
If I take the mute tool to an audio event, does that stop Cubase from streaming the audio file?
…like how bypassing plugins doesn’t stop their processing, only powering them off does.

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If you disable a track, it does shut off all disk activity and processing for that track:

I don’t know whether muting does that too, but my guess would be no. Maybe somebody else knows?

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bump.

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I don’t know the answer, but it seems like it would be fairly easy to test it yourself and see.

Create a Project with a big bunch of Audio Tracks and Quick Link the Tracks. Then launch Task Manager or Performance Manager and watch what happens to the disk activity when you mute & unmute the Tracks.

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great idea. That would require a degree of non-laziness… but I will get to it.

I often mute tracks thinking it MIGHT help with resource management, and it would be nice to just actually know.

Thanks for the idea.

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I hear ya.

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