Created a MIDI track, sent MIDI to instrument track. Mute on that track doesn’t work in the sequencer. It works in the mixing console though.
What am I missing here?
Hi and welcome to the forum,
This has been discussed on the forum already.
If you mute the MIDI track which is routed to the Instrument track, then you mute the MIDI data sources. That means that the Instrument itself is not muted, and you can, for example, play the data from another MIDI track which is routed to the same Instrument track.
You can see the Mute enabled in the project window as you mute the MIDI track, but the Instrument track doesn’t mute. If you would mute the Instrument track, all the sounds from the MIDI data coming to the given Instrument would be muted. This is not what you want. You want to mute the source MIDI data. Therefore, you are muting the MIDI track.
@Martin.Jirsak thanks, so this a design decision that mute on instruments that receive MIDI data doesn’t have any effect?
I use a MIDI track to send the same data to 3 instruments. Then I’d like to mute some of them to check how they sound. So the only way to achieve this is either disable the track entirely or mute the track in question in the mix console?
I think the logic here is that the Mute button on MIDI Tracks mute the MIDI data. Since an Instrument Track is an amalgamation of a MIDI Track and a VST Instrument, the choice was to make the Mute button in the track list mute the MIDI and the Mute button in the Mix Console mute the VSTi audio return.
Then I’m assuming you use MIDI Sends and you could use the Activate button on each send to mute the midi going to that send destination.
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That’s right, an option as well. Thanks!
Makes sense, thank you.
Hi,
In fact, when you route a MIDI Track to an Instrument Track, then on the Instrument Track the Mute in the Project window is not the same as the Mute in the MixConsole. The logic is the same again. In the Project window, you Mute the source MIDI data (so you don’t hear the given MIDI data). In the MixConsole, you Mute the Instrument Return Channel, so you don’t hear the whole Instrument.