Elektron Musical Instruments

>"...very often, if I enter song mode after playing in pattern mode 
>for a while, I am unable to mute or unmute anything in the song 
>steps and a soft reset is required."

I have come across this problem also, and I think I also have the 
solution, unless I'm encountering a slightly different problem to 
you. 

I think if you have a pattern selected in pattern mode (eg. you've 
been playing around with A10), and then you change to song mode, you 
won't be able to edit the song mutes for that particular pattern 
(ie. A10 - in this case). this is just what I think happens. 

so if you find yourself in this situation, go back into pattern mode 
and change to a pattern that you aren't using in song mode (because 
quite often, I find I'm using the same patterns in both modes one 
after the other).

hope this helps.

 - Joe