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Summary: The mute feature of the Pro Tools MIDI editing interface allows users to mute or delete certain notes. Streamline the MIDI editing process in Pro Tools with the tips in this free video on music recording software from a professional musician.
"The next thing I'm going to show you is how to mute certain parts of the tracks and things like that. You can really mute certain notes but, you can delete certain notes. So, it's just as good. You, I can take this, I can change this part to my mute tab and now I can go in here and actually mute certain parts of it. The once that are up is going to show me things I've muted was not muted. So if I take this part and I play it, make sure that my record is off so my automation will work. So this is going to, whatever is allowed, it's just going to play. If I have this part right here, I can also, there's no real half way on, half way mute, but you can do that with volume. I can also change this whole thing and just grab a whole selection and mute it and unmute it. I can go to back to begin, "let's see the back, beginning one again", and just change this one note. So I'm going to take this second note out. So when I play it."
eHow Article: Pro Tools MIDI Editing: Mute Feature