After seeing a screenshot of the new muted objects in 4.0.6 (thanks Richard), I must say I agree with f-erenc and Richard, the green hilight does draw your attention to muted objects, which is kind of the opposite of what you want. It is however a definite improvement over the asterix. As is the large dot on LAM. I think the diagonal line is perhaps half way there. How about highly visible cross hatching plus greying out of the note or waveform display and the border? In fact I think I prefer just plain greying out like when effects are bypassed in the mixer (so it's not impossible then). But maybe grey out all colour, grey out the note or waveform display and remove the black line surrounding the object. As the green hilight removes the use of green for colouring any of your seqs, I think grey is a better colour to not use, if that makes sense (I'm just typing aloud now :- ) Or even make the colour transparent so it looks like you have the background texture on the object, as someone else suggested. Mat