[chrismeraz]

You won’t believe me, but my hardware inserts are behaving as sends.

On a vocal track I have a software insert (EQ) followed by a hardware insert (optical compressor).

When I press play on the session, I hear the vocal doubled. If I mute the vocal track, I still hear one vocal. If I then remove the hardware compressor from the track, the second vocal goes away. I have triple-checked all hidden tracks, I/O settings, reset the computer...