Muralist,

The smoothing and bending are turned off at places other than the channel themselves. If you delete a rotate or translate channel, it has not been turned off at another place, so I don't think it will work, but, that said, I have never tried it. Do a few experiments and see, maybe you have stumbled on something here, just deleting an entire channel instead of locking it.

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