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ABurn

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Hi there folks,

I have finally crafted a template of my dreams with all its pristine routing for stemming. The only issue I'm encountering now is that control+click for power button on Aux tracks such as reverbs, delays, parallel compression has not no affect.

The reason why I want it is so I can load processing as I need with simple control+click for the current stem that it's in use. Having all of them bypassed is quite a pain to enable them one by one again.

I will share my current discoveries.

1. control+click for power button does not disable plugins on aux tracks:

1. control+click aux track.png


2. control+click for power button works on audo and MIDI tracks:

2. control+click works for audo and midi.png

3. very surprising - control+click works for summed stack main track, audio, MIDI but not for aux track inside it:

3. control+ click works for auxed group bot not for tracks inside it.png

It seems any option here I can come up with, aux tracks themselves just simply ignore such a great function to unload unwanted CPU processing by one simple command...

Any help would be appreciated!
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ABurn said:
I have finally crafted a template of my dreams with all its pristine routing for stemming. The only issue I'm encountering now is that control+click for power button on Aux tracks such as reverbs, delays, parallel compression has not no affect.
The reason why I want it is so I can load processing as I need with simple control+click for the current stem that it's in use. Having all of them bypassed is quite a pain to enable them one by one again.
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I don't think control+clicking the on/off button does anything: if you're on Logic 10.8+, then your choices are (a) a simple click, which unloads the plugins; or (b) option+click, which will suspend plugin processing without unloading them. In previous versions, these functions were reversed.

Anyway, you're right: neither click nor option+click has any effect on Aux tracks. This may be intentional: Audio and Instrument channels create their own sound, so disabling them means you silence them (and save memory/CPU.) Aux channels process audio for other channels, so turning them off and still allowing audio to pass could have some nasty effects (e.g. if a Limiter were disabled, say.)

Anyway, a couple of work-around ideas:
  • Assign a key command to "Bypass all effect plugins", which will let you quickly bypass all the effects on the selected channel.
  • Depending on how you're using Aux channels for stems, you might be able to use Audio tracks instead: the on/off button has the correct effect there. They otherwise work like Aux tracks except they're best used either as input (i.e. recording a stem), or output (i.e. playing back a stem) at any one time, but not both.
  • In theory, setting an Aux track to No Output should mean the track doesn't get processed, even though its plugins are loaded; I haven't had a chance to test this recently, though.
 
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