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Ardour has three main settings which affect how monitoring is performed. The first is Edit > Preferences > Audio > - Record monitoring handled by. There are two or three - options here, depending on the capabilities of your hardware. + Record monitoring handled by. There are two or three + options here, depending on the capabilities of the hardware.

The other two settings are more complex. One is Tape machine mode, found in the @@ -13,23 +13,22 @@

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. + the session record-enable button, and on whether or not the transport is + rolling.

Software or Hardware Monitoring Modes

-If Ardour is set to external monitoring, the explanation of -Ardour's monitoring behaviour is simple: it does not do any. + If Ardour is set to external monitoring, Ardour does not do any + monitoring.

Monitoring in Non-Tape-Machine Mode

- When Tape-Machine mode is off, and a track is armed, - Ardour always monitors the live input, except in one case: - the transport is rolling, the session is not recording, and - auto-input - is active. In this case only, you will hear playback from an armed track. + When Tape-Machine mode is off, and a track is armed, Ardour + always monitors the live input, except in one case: if the transport is + rolling, the session is not recording, and auto-input is active, + the playback from an armed track will be heard.

Unarmed tracks will play back their contents from disc, unless the @@ -40,11 +39,10 @@ Ardour's monitoring behaviour is simple: it does not do any.

Monitoring in Tape-Machine Mode

- In Tape-Machine mode, things are slightly simpler: when a - track is armed, its behaviour is the same as in non-tape-machine mode. + In Tape-Machine mode, when a track is armed, its behaviour is + the same as in non-tape-machine mode.

Unarmed tracks however will always just play back their contents from disk; the live input will never be monitored.

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