Will Muting tracks in T put less demand on CPU?

[rockstar_not]

I've had Tracktion for about 2 months now and I have a question about resource allocation with T. Let's say I have several MIDI tracks that I'm trying to decide on which one I like. I'm using a VSTi and at least one VST effect on each track.

If I mute tracks that I'm not currently interested in, will they still send commands to the CPU, or do they sit 'dormant' until unmuted?

I've got a pretty old system (Win98SE, 256 MB ram, AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz, etc.) and I can get into CPU overload pretty quickly with the VSTi I like to use (Mr. Ray's EP, Organized Trio, Crystal, etc.).

If I can keep tracks around for audition just by muting them until the time comes around to audition them, that would be cool. I have been freezing tracks, but since my system is fairly old - those computations take quite awhile.

I searched the Newbie FAQ and couldn't find tips on this. If you know the answer to the question, a quick reply would be appreciated.

-Scott

[j_T]

Might be better to disable the VST(i)s on those tracks.

Regards,

Tommy

[multree]

muting them will set free all cpu power used up by this track and it's vsts

[AD80]

muting them will set free all cpu power used up by this track and it's vsts

Take that Cubase!

One of the things I like about Tracktion. That was so annoying to me back in the Cubase days. No matter what you did, the loaded plug-ins would be sucking up CPU even when stopped, and when the track was muted. Now a quick mute will give me my juice back.

[CharlieSolak]

I use Finalizer a lot, turning this off temporarily while I do other things drops cpu usage to zero. At least on my laptop.