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This is something Logic has, a "No Output" track. Basically this is a zero-overhead track that allows you to store clips and bits of arrangement without deleting. For example, say I want to experiment with the arrangement (in the arrange view) and try other clip combinations or fancy cut-pasting of clips, i'll typically drag the existing time-region clips onto a "No Output" track (usually created adjacent to the active track), then, experiment with other arrangements in that time-region. It a good place to store older ideas, particularly in the arrange view.

Using a Logic example [see image below], the "No Output" track contains the original arrangement ideas for the "Audio 5" track. The "No Output" track allows me to store complex bits of arrangement to be used again, here or elsewhere in the arrangement. Live could use a similar approach. "No Output" tracks in Live's arrange view can be absent in the session view. The key here is that these tracks represent virtually no audio i/o overhead, they're just storage regions.

Drag the clips to any track and deactivate them. Has the same effect (as for not being read from the harddisk and thus not consuming any CPU).

It works, but the contents of the clip becomes invisible (just inconvenience) and 2 extra clicks required for each activation/deactivation.

michkhol wrote:It works, but the contents of the clip becomes invisible (just inconvenience) and 2 extra clicks required for each activation/deactivation.

I understand what you mean, and I use the 'No Output' track in Logic a lot for the mentioned purpose.
But then, I can live with the solution of deactivating clips on a seperate track in Live, because I can still read the name of the clips (don't really need to see the waveform here).
As for the extra clicks, I have assigned a custom shortcut to "Deactivate Clip(s)".