Muting/unmuting sound locks (OT / A4 / DN) possible?

[lesstalkmoredisco]

Hey y’all, specific question this time.

Maybe I’m overasking with this one, but is there a way to mute / unmute sound locks? Especially when using just one or two boxes, and getting the most out of limited amount of tracks, I’d love to use single tracks for two drum elements, for example 4/4 kick and backbeat hihat. It would be great if there was a way to bring them in separately though, hence the question if that’s possible?

Mostly curious for OT or A4, but also curious if otherwise it’s possible on DT or DN.

If there’s only very cumbersome workarounds then I’d just forget about it, but just to be sure I thought I’d check, maybe there’s a smart way that I’m not imagining yet.

Curious if anyone knows!

(I did try to look around in threads around here and feature requests, but my brain is a bit fried at the moment, sorry if I’ve missed it in existing threads)

[Schnork]

On the A4, trig mutes should work, no? I think I’ve never put trig mute on a sound lock actually, but see no reason why it wouldn’t work.

On the OT, you could try with eq or filter to remove elements from a track.

[Jacob]

If I understand what you’re wanting to do, could you use fill mode?

[lesstalkmoredisco]

@Jacob

I guess I could, but then I’d need to keep pressing it. Still, an option. Especcially if I’d want to introduce them during a Pattern, where the next pattern has them unmuted anyways.

[lesstalkmoredisco]

Yes!! A4 is still a bit new to me but you’re right the trig mutes are ideal! Quick enough to unmute them manually during a running sequence I’m sure (I wouldn’t want to rely on my dexterity if I’d have to go through all PLOCKS/trig-locks, but just hitting those mute trigs on the A4 should be easy enough for sure)

Still curious if there’s ways for the OT too, but this is great, thanks @Schnork

[Schnork]

@lesstalkmoredisco

I guess I could, but then I’d need to keep pressing it.

You can latch fill. And yep, fill is indeed a good way to achieve this on OT.

Press [DOWN] + [PATTERN PAGE] to activate FILL mode for one pattern cycle. It will become active when the pattern loops, and remain active until it loops again. You can also activate FILL mode at any time, and for any duration, by pressing and holding the [UP] + [PATTERN PAGE] keys when the pattern is playing. The FILL mode is active for as long as the keys are held. If you want to latch FILL mode, press [UP] + [DOWN] + [PATTERN PAGE]. Press [UP] + [PATTERN PAGE] to unlatch FILL mode.

[DanJamesAUS]

@lesstalkmoredisco Normally I hold the trig and press no to mute on the OT turns it into green trigless trig

[Schnork]

Ah, yes. Turning a trig into a trigless lock indeed works as a trig mute workaround. Press trig again to unmute. Totally forgot about that!

For midi tracks velocity can be set to 0, btw, to mute trigs.

[lesstalkmoredisco]

Good one!

[lesstalkmoredisco]

@Schnork

You can latch fill. And yep, fill is indeed a good way to achieve this on OT.

Press [DOWN] + [PATTERN PAGE] to activate FILL mode for one pattern cycle. It will become active when the pattern loops, and remain active until it loops again. You can also activate FILL mode at any time, and for any duration, by pressing and holding the [UP] + [PATTERN PAGE] keys when the pattern is playing. The FILL mode is active for as long as the keys are held. If you want to latch FILL mode, press [UP] + [DOWN] + [PATTERN PAGE]. Press [UP] + [PATTERN PAGE] to unlatch FILL mode

I did not know this!! I sort of didn’t dare hope this I think… Wow this is perfect!