Originally Posted by Adam Williamson
Thanks.

Just so I’m clear in my mind then, is there a reason I would pick one over the other? At first glance, it seems the mute is the better option as the tracks stay silent until brought back in. I wouldn’t have thought there’d be that many situations where I’d want stuff to stop just for a single bar…
Personally I would use rests to stop an instrument for just one or two bars, I would use mute to stop a block of bars, e.g., a whole chorus, multiple choruses, trading-eights or similar.

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