3 title: Monitor Setup in Ardour
4 menu-title: Setup in Ardour
7 <p>Ardour has three main settings which affect how
8 monitoring is performed. The first is
9 <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Audio >
10 Record monitoring handled by</kbd>. There are two or three
11 options here, depending on the capabilities of your hardware.
13 <p> The other two settings are more complex. One is
14 <kbd class="menu">Tape machine mode</kbd>, found in the
15 same dialog, and the other is the
16 <kbd class="option">Session > Properties > Monitoring
17 automatically follows transport state</kbd> setting.
20 Monitoring also depends on the state of the track's record-enable button,
21 the session record-enable button, and on whether or not the transport is
25 <h3>Software or Hardware Monitoring Modes</h3>
27 If Ardour is set to <dfn>external monitoring</dfn>, the explanation of
28 Ardour's monitoring behaviour is simple: it does not do any.
31 <h2>Monitoring in Non-Tape-Machine Mode</h2>
33 When <dfn>Tape-Machine mode is off</dfn>, and a track is armed,
34 Ardour <em>always</em> monitors the live input, except in one case:
35 the transport is rolling, the session is not recording, and
37 is active. In this case only, you will hear playback from an armed track.
40 Unarmed tracks will play back their contents from disc, unless the
41 transport is stopped <em>and</em> <dfn>auto-input</dfn> is enabled.
42 In this case, the track monitors its live input.
45 <h2>Monitoring in Tape-Machine Mode</h2>
48 In <dfn>Tape-Machine mode</dfn>, things are slightly simpler: when a
49 track is armed, its behaviour is the same as in non-tape-machine mode.
52 Unarmed tracks however will always just play back their contents from
53 disk; the live input will never be monitored.