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