[Xavior]

I see what your saying and yes the "pencil tool" is definately the way to go, because no matter how fast you are with a "click" (either mouse or ctl24 or whatever) it's extrememly hard to get (intricate) mutes right on the beat. By selecting "mute" in the TRACK DISPLAY and using the pencil tool (and grabber if needed) you can line up your mutes exactly to the beat and only "write mute" to that exact point and see a visual overlay of all your mute points... Pretty cool.

The item I've been dealing with is :

When a track (lets say VIOLIN) has "mute automation" on it of any kind, (written, pencil etc.) and you have said track in a regions "group" with other tracks (using the create group function) ......lets say you call this group of tracks "STRINGS". When you mute group "STRINGS" by pressing any mute button on any of the "STRINGS" tracks located in the group, the track which contains "mute" automation (VIOLIN in this case) will still cycle itself (during playback) to follow the mute automation written to the track regardless of the master "mute" status of the group.
So although all the other tracks of the group called "STRINGS" stay muted, during playback, the track "VIOLIN" continues to turn on and off and follow it's original "mute automation" commands, basically...playng.


This tells me that "mute automation" on a track "overides" group mute commands.


I was just wondering if there was any way to reverse that situation so that "group mute" commands..overides any individual "track mute automation".


The fix I have right now is to turn off any automation on the track by selecting "off" in the automation window of the track before setting the group to "mute".
This is all well and good if your talking about one track, but when you have several tracks in different groups with the same mute automation situation as the track called "VIOLIN", it can get tricky because you have to remember to turn automation back on, each and every time you finish muting a group....and it really slows down the workflow.

phew......sorry about the long post.

Xavior