Wire signal-flow / bypass control

[najork]

Hello,
Fairly new to Wire (7.13.1). It's quite intuitive, but I'm wondering if I'm handling the logic properly.

I am using switches to select between variations within an effect. For example, in a feedback effect I have switches that select from different mixers with different opacity modes. The problem is that it seems like all the nodes leading into the switch are being processed, not just the one selected output. I have a utility monitoring GPU usage, and the additional mixer nodes multiply the usage. If I hit bypass on the extra mixers, the GPU goes back down, same as if i deleted those nodes.

Is there a better way of handling the logic? Something upstream from the branching?
The tutorial made it sound like switches should prevent unneeded processing, but maybe I misunderstood.
It didn't seem like gate nodes behaved differently, but I could have missed some detail.
There's no way to bypass a node from within Resolume, right?

Thanks

[Arvol]

I believe in the future when something is bypassed, all nodes leading up to it will be bypassed as well. For now, if you have UI elements I would suggest using those in accordance with a Less node to toggle other node's bypass functions, so if a slider is under 0.1 the less node would return a true and that would be connected to the bypass param on other nodes.

[najork]

Thank you for the reply.

...and that would be connected to the bypass param on other nodes.

Are there any nodes where I am able to connect to the bypass parameter?

edit; I just realized the bypass inlets are hidden, but can be revealed! Thank you for leading me to that!

[Arvol]

Thank you for the reply.

...and that would be connected to the bypass param on other nodes.

Are there any nodes where I am able to connect to the bypass parameter?

edit; I just realized the bypass inlets are hidden, but can be revealed! Thank you for leading me to that!

Sorry, Yeah, I should have mentioned that the Bypass inlet is hidden by default.