Defeat (turn off) play automation

[revi]

Hi there,

Apologies in advance: I have looked in the manual, I have searched through menus...but I can't figure this out and I feel like an imbecile. This also strikes me as something that should be gut simple to figure out but seems really inscrutable. I am confident the solution will be simple.

I received a DP file (I've got DP 10 but am using DP 9.x) with audio tracks.

Some of the tracks "auto play": the tracks can be muted (little triangle "play" icon is deselected in the Tracks tab) but when the song is started, the tracks automagically become play enabled. I have their output selected to "None", I've gone in the Sequence tab and searched through the various mini-menus, I've checked the Automation Setup menu under Setup and nothing indicates where this setting is being made.

Notably, there is no "play triangle" in the ATO column in the Tracks tab. However, there are plenty of other tracks that don't have the play triangle in that column but that don't auto-play.

I'm at the point of just creating another version of the song and blowing away these tracks en masse (since they'll probably not be needed), but before doing that I thought I'd ask wise-and-seasoned DP people.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,

Iver

[HCMarkus]

Look at the mixer and turn off the green Automation Enable button for the troublesome tracks.

[revi]

Look at the mixer and turn off the green Automation Enable button for the troublesome tracks.

Hello, HCMarkus,

Thank you for your note. However, it seems the issue is something else. There are plenty of other tracks that are muted that "stay muted" but these problem tracks unmute (i.e., play enable) themselves whenever the song is played. All the "combinatorial possibilities" are present (i.e., combinations of tracks that are muted or not, with automation turned on or not, etc.) but there's only a handful of tracks exhibiting this behavior. Really annoying...and mystifying!

It might be a bug but it sure is a very selective bug. Has me flummoxed. Not a critical issue and I may just create a copy of the project and blow away all the unneeded tracks (as there are many such) but this has been driving me nuts as I can't find an underlying reason and, by dint of either stubbornness or curiosity, I'd like to understand why it's acting that way.

Thank you for your input, I'm going to keep poking around. If/when I figure it out, I'll post the "trick".



Best,

Iver