Hey everyone!
Something small I’ve been wondering about…What is the difference between Trig Mutes and Track Mutes (Mute Mode)?
As in, why would I want to use one version of muting over the other?
Here is how I think it works:
Trig Mutes = For programming ahead of time any mutes that you may want on a specific Track
Track Mute = Goes without saying…on-the-fly mutes, but has to be done manually, taking your hands away from other functions in order engage/disengage
Anything else I’m missing here?
Trig mutes mute individual trigs, track mutes are for the whole track.
If you wanted to mute your hi hat or kick or whatever, just mute the track. It’s just one tap with a finger. Quickly trying to enter trig mutes for all trigs might not be feasible.
Mute trigs on the other hand can be used to mute only part of what you have on a track.
So you could use this to evolve, for example a bass line, synth lead etc. - Have trig mutes prepared and then delete them to expand the bassline, synth lead or whatever with additional notes.
You could also quickly take away a few trigs for a break with trig mutes.
Ofc you could just use another pattern for that, but then you’d have to have those changes already prepared as patterns beforehand. Trig mutes are a nice and spontanious way of doing it without changing patterns.
It’s also nice to have them as “markers” in a pattern so you know which trigs you can bring in and if you enter trig mutes into a pattern, the trigs stay visible, so you always have a visual clue of what’s going on.
You could ofc copy the pattern and then delete some trigs or enter additional trigs and paste the pattern to basically “reload” to the original version of the pattern.
Trig mutes are a more organized way of funking with patterns on a trig level.
I use Trig Mutes on the Analog Four for testing different variations on a track, in a non-destructive way. If I have a bunch of trigs with micro-timing, complex parameter locks, sound locks etc, trig mutes allow me to experiment with thinning out a pattern without losing all the work/information that I’ve put into it.
This is why I love talking to others about how they work. Very interesting, never would have thought of that!
I see what you’re saying, makes sense!
Much easier to understand now that I get the general intention behind how they’d be used.
I do have one question through, could you elaborate on the “markers” concept? Can you give another example of how you do this? Sounds very fun and interesting!
Nothing special, I just meant that when I have some trig mutes prepared and then open the trig mute menu [Funct]+[Bank A/E] which lets me view all trig mutes at once, that helps me a lot remembering what my intention was on that track. Even if I didn’t play those patterns in a while, it’s just a little visual clue for me what I had in mind when I worked on that pattern.
For sure, thanks for explaining it more. Really good stuff!