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You can make track inputs and outputs inactive

(or active) directly from the Edit or Mix win-

dows. Inactive I/O Paths are grayed out.

To make a track’s Input or Output Path inactive (or

active), do one of the following:

 In the Edit or Mix window, Right-click the In-

put selector or Output selector for a track, and

choose Make Inactive (or Make Active) from the

pop-up menu.

– or –

 Command-Control-click (Mac) or Control-

Start-click (Windows) the Input or Output selec-

tor in the Mix or Edit window.

To make all tracks’ Inputs or Outputs assigned to

the same path inactive (or active), do one of the

following:

 In the Edit or Mix window, Option-Right-click

(Mac) or Alt-Right-click (Windows) the Input se-

lector or Output selector for a track, and choose

Make Inactive (or Make Active) from the pop-up

menu.

– or –

 Command-Option-Control-click (Mac) or

Control-Alt-Start-click (Windows) the Input or

Output selector in the Mix or Edit window.

To make all selected tracks’ Inputs or Outputs

assigned to the same path inactive (or active), do

one of the following:

 In the Edit or Mix window, Option-Shift-

Right-click (Mac) or Alt-Shift-Right-click (Win-

dows) the Input selector or Output selector for a

track, and choose Make Inactive (or Make Active)

from the pop-up menu.

– or –

 Command-Option-Control-Shift-click (Mac)

or Control-Alt-Start-Shift-click (Windows) the

Input or Output selector in the Mix or Edit win-

dow.

Toggling Multiple Paths

If a track has only one main output assignment,

Command-Control-click (Mac) or Control-Start-

click (Windows) the track’s Output Path selector

to toggle the main output to inactive. When

there are multiple assignments, the track selec-

tor will be displayed for you to specify the Input,

Output, Insert, or Bus Path.

You can also make a path globally inactive

(or active) in the I/O Setup dialog. See

“Making Paths Active or Inactive” on

page 106.

If a Send (A–J) has multiple Output Path as-

signments and one of those is toggled active

or inactive, then

all of the Output Path as-

signments for that Send (A–J) are toggled

active or inactive.