Master effects and track mutes

Apologies in advance as I’ll prob find my answer as soon as i post this, but…

I was just messing around with using the DN solely as a delay/reverb unit for a synth plugged into Input L and found that the master effects are not enabled unless at least one of the tracks is un-muted and there is a trigger that has been played. If all of the tracks are muted or there are no triggers then the master effects wont enable.

Is this normal? Am i doing something wrong? Is there a workaround?

Hi! I am sending the sound AND midi from other synth to digitone. Midi to play internal tracks but with 0 track level instead of mute.