diff --git a/Software/Gravity/Gravity.ino b/Software/Gravity/Gravity.ino
index 027adcc..55e04b4 100644
--- a/Software/Gravity/Gravity.ino
+++ b/Software/Gravity/Gravity.ino
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ void sendTriggers() { //rename to onPulse or something
       }
 
       bool currentStepValue = bitRead(sequences[channels[i].seqPattern].sequence, currentStep[i]);
-      if (channels[i].mode == 2 && currentStepValue) {
+      if (channels[i].mode == 2 && currentStepValue && !channels[i].isMute) {
         digitalWrite(outsPins[i], HIGH);
       }
     }
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ void calculateBPMTiming() {
     }
     uint8_t calcbpm = bpm + mod;
     if (calcbpm > MAXBPM) { calcbpm = MAXBPM; };
-    pulsePeriod = 600000 / (calcbpm * PPQN); //optimisation: try using floats, maybe it'll make it more precise, like 60000.0 / ((float)(calcbpm * PPQN));
+    pulsePeriod = 600000 / (calcbpm * PPQN); // 600000.0 / ((float)(calcbpm * PPQN)) - floats eat up ~2% of program memory, but are they more precise? need to measure
 
   } else if (masterClockMode == 1 && extClockPPQN == 1) {  //for ext 1/16 clock
     pulsePeriod = (newExtPulseTime - lastExtPulseTime) * 10 / 6;
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ void saveState() {
   EEPROM.put(addr, extraChannel);
 }
 
-void loadState() {
+void loadState() { //optimisation: try to make an abstraction that can take an array (of pointers?) of settings to be loaded/saved 
   //check last bit in eeprom to know if the correct settings were stored
   if (EEPROM.read(1023) == memCode) {
     uint16_t addr = 0;