Is there any way I can manually trigger a sample while being on the mixer window?

I’ve been capturing live samples from my modular and I’d love to be able to quickly drop out the direct modular mix going through the OT and just improvise with the samples. However, to drop out the direct mix I need to be on the mixer window and I’m not sure if there’s a good way of playing those samples in that window.

Any wisdom or ideas from more experienced OT users?

Track button plus Play button will launch a sample on a track from the mix window.
Also, if you’ve got a free track you could set up a thru track for your inputs and use XVOL set to 0 on a scene and just crossfade over to switch between live sampling to playing with the samples.