Feature Request: Per-Step Mute / Gate / Silence Mode Per Track

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Please add an optional Gate Mode for each track so that:

Step ON = audio passes through that track

Step OFF = no audio passes through that track

In other words, inactive steps should behave as true silence for that track, not just “no new effect trigger.”

Ideally this would be different from Trails behavior:

Trails Off = current behavior

Gate Mode = inactive step fully mutes that track’s output

optional Gate + Trails mode = inactive step stops new input but allows existing tails to decay

The goal is to make rhythmic gating, stutter patterns, and polymetric silence patterns possible without sacrificing an extra track for a mute effect workaround.

If “Only Trails” behaves like closing the input to the effect

Then True Gating would be muting the output of the track

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Gate Mode is how it works with effects that don’t have decaying trails like slicers, if you have Only Trails mode on. But yeah not possible with Reverb/Delay in current config.

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The idea is to have a direct uniform / standard way to do step silence (no output / no dry signal) in each slot for all effect types, separate from impacting Trails. I hope that’s a worthy distinction.