Plastic Meanie Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 I suddenly have random tracks appearing in my arrange view window (see grab); each is called No Output and they don't seem to be connected to anything and don't appear in the mixer. But if you change the icon on one, they all change even if only one is selected. What are they? And why do they appear? I've never seen this behaviour before. Thanks for any enlightenment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution David Nahmani Posted May 31, 2022 Solution Share Posted May 31, 2022 They are tracks that are not assigned to a channel strip or any other object in Logic's MIDI Environment. Because there's only one single "No Output" object in a project, all of them share the same icon. How did you get to that point? What happened? In any case you can safely delete those tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polanoid Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 (edited) This happens e.g. if you delete the channel strip associated with a track. As every track needs to be associated with exactly one object in the environment (you know, the window that is opened when you press Cmd-0), the track is associated with the "No Output" object instead (and there is only one No Output object, as David already pointed out). So, did you delete any channel strips, maybe? Edited May 31, 2022 by polanoid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polanoid Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 4 minutes ago, David Nahmani said: In any case you can safely delete those tracks. Only if they don't have any content. Otherwise you might regret deleting them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, polanoid said: Only if they don't have any content. +1 Definitely. I meant you can safely delete the tracks, not the regions they may contain in case you want to keep them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polanoid Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 BTW "No Output" tracks can indeed be handy sometimes, if you want to park content on them which you don't actually want to be played back. Therefore, you can even manually assign the "No Output" object to any track. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 1 minute ago, polanoid said: BTW "No Output" tracks can indeed be handy sometimes, if you want to park content on them which you don't actually want to be played back. Indeed, I do this a lot. And for the people that don't realise, you can reassign the track object on any track by control/right-clicking on the track header and going through the "Reassign track ->" menus to choose a different environment object for that track... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic Meanie Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 18 minutes ago, David Nahmani said: How did you get to that point? What happened? I have absolutely no idea! I may have deleted a channel strip (or four) in the mixer but don't recall doing this. I guess it might have been effect buses or something that automatically opened with a Logic patch which I might not have wanted? Would deleting those do it? I've just reopened a project alternative where I'd been only working in the mixer so I hadn't even noticed they'd appeared til I went back to do some more recording. Thanks so much for all the speedy replies, good to know I can delete them with no damage done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, Plastic Meanie said: good to know I can delete them with no damage done. Yeah no worries. And you're welcome! 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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