Mute individual pads

[collider]

I've read that I can mute individual pads on push 2 while it's playing by holding the mute button and pressing the pad, but this isn't working for me. I can hold the mute button, push the pad, nothing happens. Then eventually it goes into mute lock mode. I've tried this many times.

The only way i've been able to get it to work is to hold select, hold the pad, release select, then press mute... which isn't great. Is there something obvious i'm missing to get it to mute using the first method?

[Razz CE]

It works fine for me. I can only offer that Push 2 sometimes has issues with the "hold mute, press pad/button" method when you release mute very quickly after touching the pad. It seems unlikely, but maybe you just triggered that bug every time. Try keeping mute held for a moment after touching the pad.

[collider]

Thanks for the reply. I've tried that too but if i hold mute for longer it just enables mute lock. Also tried holding the pad and mute for longer but same effect. Have asked ableton for tech support

[starving student]

please report back when you've figured this issue out

[Stromkraft]

I've read that I can mute individual pads on push 2 while it's playing by holding the mute button and pressing the pad, but this isn't working for me.
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get it to work is to hold select, hold the pad, release select, then press mute...

For you people on Push 1, as myself, the first method works and the second works with the PXT Live editors.

[collider]

I got a response - muting individual pads does work for normal drum racks, but doesn't work for drum racks based on vst instruments. I was trying to get it work with the audiomodder racks with NI komplete.

The problem is apparently that in order to mute a pad, that pad needs to be a dedicated instrument itself because when you mute you're just muting the instrument, and this isn't the case for if you're just playing a vst instrument. I'm sure there are ways they could implement support for this, but the fix they suggested was to map a different instance of Battery to each pad, instead of one instrument for all pads in the rack.

[Stromkraft]

I got a response - muting individual pads does work for normal drum racks, but doesn't work for drum racks based on vst instruments. .

You've been misinformed or you have misunderstood the info you received as this is not the case. This is probably related to not getting how audio is routed in Live. Muting can't affect audio that isn't going trough the muted chain. Audio routing can be a bit complex and took me a while to grasp. It's pretty obvious once you know it though.

Whatever sound that is routed back to the pad is indeed muted as that is an output of the sound played from it. If you're routing the audio from the VST to other outputs elsewhere obviously you're not muting the output when you mute the pad. One proper way to set up using a VST in a drum rack is to use "External Instrument" and route MIDI from the pad to the VST and use separate outputs of the VST routed back. When you do that — I do it like that in more or less all my songs — the muting works as expected.

[Stromkraft]

I've read that I can mute individual pads on push 2 while it's playing by holding the mute button and pressing the pad, but this isn't working for me.
…
get it to work is to hold select, hold the pad, release select, then press mute...

For you people on Push 1, as myself, the first method works and the second works with the PXT Live editors.

Just to clarify here I referred to MIDI note muting, i e setting velocity to 0 of a note in a clip. Now I think I understand it was overall muting on the audio level that collider asked for. Both ways of muting — event or pad/chain — are good to know and highly useful.

[teknobryan]

when I mute a pad in a drum rack the color dims just a little bit. It is really hard to distinguish between muted and non-muted pads. Is there something I'm missing? Do others have this problem?

[GdabZ]

Yes, although I can mute individual pads, I'm perfectly unable to tell which one is muted and which one is not. Not very practical.