yeah man! I got the workflow for you. This is a great technique for live sets with many different parts
see steps 1-4
1. Group all the devices on the channel. Eq8 isn't very CPU hungry, but reverbs and soft synths usually are.
Turn off the group with I/O button: top left.
2.Using the MIDI clip that you want to play, turn the rack on. This turns all the devices inside it on, but only when the clip is played. 1 breakpoint will do.
3. Add some smoothing for the end of your clip. Do this by creating a dummy clip underneath (assuming you work downwards, scencewise), that contains no notes.
4. The clip automation for the dummy clip looks like this.
You will notice that the Envelope Loop type is 'Unlinked.' This means that the envelope automation is unhinged from the clip envelope length. Although not necessarily a requirement of this type of dummy clip, I think it makes the programming nicer. What is a necessary feature is the differentiation from the clip start time (right facing triangle), and the clip loop brace (starting at bar 3.1.1 in the above picture). What happens here is the automation is left on for 2 bars, then turned off for a half bar, which is looped indefinitely. The result is that the devices are still turned on from the last clip you played, but without any new notes, allowing the reverb tails to naturally fall to a low level before being cut out of the mix.
The final two steps allows for your reverb tails to trail off after you have stopped playing the sounds....if you need them. Otherwise, turning off the synths/fx can be a little abrupt, in an unpleasant way. ....................Unless your music calls for abruptness!
For an example of this technique that you can get your hands on play with and dissect, I have a project posted at
https://splice.com/steveglen/d-k-s-l
, and i use a channel containing VST's i use for acid lines.