Muting and unmuting a MIDI track creates a new lane (?)

Cubase
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Whenever I mute or unmute a MIDI track, Cubase 15 creates (or at least shows) what appears to be a new automation lane underneath the main track:

Cubase 15 mute lane
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These new lanes (?) cumulatively increase the vertical size of my workflow by 33%, and I never want or need to see it, since the “M” button works just fine for seeing whether or not a track is muted.

I can make the new lane (?) go away (Right click > Remove parameter) but that only works just the once. If I mute and/or unmute the track again, it gets inserted/shown again.

How do I get rid of this? I’ve looked through the “Preferences” and “Track controls” but haven’t found any setting to automatically show or hide this annoying, unnecessary clutter.

2

That’s an automation lane. To simply mute the track you just hit the M on the top left. To remove the automation lane turn off the R’s, ctrl+left click, or maybe Ctrl+ right click, the lane and choose remove.

3

I only ever use the “M” to mute and unmute.

As I said in my original post, removing the lane once is easy, but it keeps coming back every time I mute and unmute the track. I want to get rid of it forever.

4

Do you have global write automation enabled when you mute the track?

5

No … should I? :confused:

6

No, just wondering why your automation lanes are showing read automation enabled.

7

I often have multiple MIDI CCs going on on my tracks. Shouldn’t “read automation” be enabled for accurate playback?

8

MIDI CC and automation are not the same thing.

Here’s a suitable AI search result that explains it:

whats the difference between MIDI CC and automation - Google Search

9

Open the Automation Panel (F6 by default) and there switch to the Settings tab.
On the left hand side there should be an option for creating a new lane for the last touched parameter. Switch it off.

10

Perfect, thank you! :slight_smile: