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