Cloning midi track without effects

Hi all,
I have a question about cloning midi tracks. I searched and found some related questions but not the exact problem I'm having. I have a midi track using Dim Pro. I have a phase effect on it. I want to clone the track but not have the phase effect on the cloned track.  (I have the track pretty sliced up for mute/unmute, etc so I don't want to have to redo all that, hence "cloning".)  On the cloned track I want to insert a wah effect for every other bar -- I'll mute the other bars so the first track with the phase  is heard -- phase, wah, phase, wah, etc.  I know I could freeze this down and slice it up as an audio track and add the different effects but I really want to work with this in midi format as it's easier to make changes. When I clone I select to not have effects cloned, just properties and events, but it copies the effects anyway. So if I turn off phase on cloned track it turns it off on the original track. If I add wah to the cloned track, it adds wah to the original one.  Why is this when I did not select effects to be cloned? Is this a bug?

Thanks for any replies as always.

Interesting. I can reproduce this with Simple Instrument tracks (which I think is what the OP meant), and the weird part is that the plug-in the cloned track is not a separate instance; it's actually the same instance of the first FX being applied to the second track, which is why the effect can't be isolated. But it's not a new bug, 8.5.3; does the same thing.

If you split the Instrument track before cloning, and clone both tracks, it works as expected:  Separate instances of the audio FX ifyou choose to clone them, and no FX on the second audio track if you don't.

However, if you undo the cloning of the split tracks, re-make the instrument track, clone it again without effects checked and split that, instead of getting audio and MIDI tracks, you get an audio track and what looks like another Instrument track with FX in it that when "split" becomes a MIDI track. 

Goofy.