Latency issues! pls help!

[jskip]

hi dudes,
i guess this is a latency issue... but
everytime i wan2 recrd in a previously mixed project (with a fair amount of active plugins in use on each track)
i have 2 switch the playback engines h/w buffer size to a low 128 or 256 samples instead of its maximum buffer size because max buffer tends to crash the prog.
then i tediously right-click each of the plugins & "deactivate" them before recording with a low h/w buffer sample rate.
my question is

is there a quicker way like "deactivate all plugins", rather then deactivating every plugin b4 i playback hardware buffer sample rates & then record?
pls, iv been struggling on this for a while..
J

[The Dougfather]

What interface?

If its a firewire interface i would recommend using low latency monitoring instead of low buffers, it's much more stable.

[eyrespace]

Hold shift and option to disable all plugs in a row.