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+<p>Ardour has three main settings which affect how
+  monitoring is performed. The first is 
+  <kbd class="menu">Edit &gt; Preferences &gt; Audio &gt; 
+  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 &gt; Properties &gt; 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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