Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
By Ekl1p5e Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:23 pm
Is it possible to mute tracks with midi control #'s? I couldnt find it in the manuals or on the forums.
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By McSmooth Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:19 pm
I don't think there is a way to do that. Most incoming MIDI information is designed to be sent to the sound engine, to a sequence track, or back out through MIDI. Akai never implemented sysex commands for the sequencer, that probably would have been a way to do this externally.

You could get creative and mute a program or part externally though. For example you could have a program set up for MIDI channel 3 that does bass only. You could then send a MIDI CC 7 (volume) value of 0 to turn the volume off (127 back on). Not so easy, but doable.