What exactly are you trying to do? You're doing lots of things in that list that you may not really need to do to simply bounce a track from synth to audio.
Especially the mute tracks thing.... is you have a project with 30 tracks that can be a major PITA.... on the flip side you could always simply SOLO the ones you want as opposed to muting what you don't .... but there is a better way that doesn't involve muting or soloing.
Why not simply highlight the track you want to bounce and use the BOUNCE TO TRACK function? Its quick and painless and does all the stuff needed to give you a new bounced track to audio.