Ah I see. I was so distracted by the red arrow that I missed the “dedicated only to loop”
I think it would need a way to disable playback of the input signal, but as far as I know that isn’t possible.
If it was possible, you could use the transparent blend or splits to tap into the signal before the looper and have the looper only play back the recorded loop.
I found a feature request for this, but it didn’t really gather a lot of votes:
