Reply To: FR: post-effect mute

Thanks for the answers, but it clearly wasn’t a good explanation.
I might not know all the features of Podium yet, but I think what I’m asking for can’t be done without manually disabling plugins.
Let me give you an example with Nebula.

Say I have a guitar track which I want to go through a nice coloured preamp like in the newly released ‘Retro Analog Studio Suite’. This preamp can consume 50-60% of cpu power alone, which I just cannot spare so I’ll have the track bounced. BUT, after this I’ll be inserting more bounce stages for EQ (multiple instances), Reverb (very cpu hungry) and Tape. I want all these stages to be separate to be able to just go back and easily tweak EQ or preamp stage for instance.
So the problem is, when I want to listen to the first stage (preamp), without EQ, Reverb and Tape added, I have to disable all these effects manually. Unless there is a way to disable them easily, which is what I’m asking for. As far as I know, even if you engage the bounce mode for the track closest to the master output, if you would solo the first stage with the preamp effect, all the effects added later in the chain would be activated, therefore eating up cpu power.

I really hope this clears it up. Oh and I’m using expanded mode.

@druid: I hope the example made it clear why I’m not bouncing a whole chain of effects. Podium really slows down to a crawl when using so many instances of Nebula and listening to them in real-time is really impossible. I hope to buy a faster pc in the near future, but even then I won’t be able to use loads of instances.