2 <p>Ardour has three main settings which affect how
3 monitoring is performed. The first is
4 <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Monitoring >
5 Record monitoring handled by</kbd>. There are two or three
6 options here, depending on the capabilities
9 <p> The other two settings are more complex. One is
10 <kbd class="menu">Tape machine mode</kbd>, found in the
11 same dialog, and the other is the
12 <kbd class="option">Session > Properties > Monitoring
13 automatically follows transport state</kbd> setting.
16 Monitoring also depends on the state of the track's record-enable button,
17 the session record-enable button, and on whether or not the transport is
21 <h3>Software or Hardware Monitoring Modes</h3>
23 If Ardour is set to <dfn>external monitoring</dfn>, Ardour does not do any
27 <h2>Monitoring in Non-Tape-Machine Mode</h2>
29 When <dfn>Tape-Machine mode is off</dfn>, and a track is armed, Ardour
30 <em>always</em> monitors the live input, except in one case: if the transport is
31 rolling, the session is not recording, and <dfn>auto-input</dfn> is active,
32 the playback from an armed track will be heard.
35 Unarmed tracks will play back their contents from disc, unless the
36 transport is stopped <em>and</em> <dfn>auto-input</dfn> is enabled.
37 In this case, the track monitors its live input.
40 <h2>Monitoring in Tape-Machine Mode</h2>
43 In <dfn>Tape-Machine mode</dfn>, when a track is armed, its behaviour is
44 the same as in non-tape-machine mode.
47 Unarmed tracks however will always just play back their contents from
48 disk; the live input will never be monitored.