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-title: Monitor Setup in Ardour
-menu_title: Setup in Ardour
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-
-<p>Ardour has three main settings which affect how
- monitoring is performed. The first is
- <kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Audio >
- Record monitoring handled by</kbd>. There are two or three
- options here, depending on the capabilities of your 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>, the explanation of
-Ardour's monitoring behaviour is simple: it does not do any.
-</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:
- the transport is rolling, the session is not recording, and
- <dfn>auto-input</dfn>
- is active. In this case only, you will hear playback from an armed track.
-</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.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Monitoring in Tape-Machine Mode</h2>
-
-<p>
- In <dfn>Tape-Machine mode</dfn>, things are slightly simpler: 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.
-</p>
-
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