Hello, It is the normal way. When you mute a track it means that you mute the instrument/plugin , not the notes it plays but the instrument sound itself. I think the bb is ther to allow you vary the notes you can play with an instrument along your song , it avoids you to duplicate an instrument for ...
As usual, nice bass, nice drums, you use the FX with the old dub style, like it !
And as usual, I think you may try to change your skanking sound, it's too synthetic to my hear VS your bass/drum part.
Why don't give a piano vst a try?
Thank you all and sorry for late reply ! @janika : That's it, I exported the whole project on multitrack waves then went to ardour to work the audioside. I just wanted to give ardour a try at mixing, and yeah now that I've done it , I think I'll always. I think ardour is way more better in audio ana...