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 the hardware. -
-The other two settings are more complex. One is - Tape machine mode, found in the - same dialog, and the other is the - Session > Properties > Monitoring - automatically follows transport state setting. -
- 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. + Ardour has two main settings which affect how monitoring is performed. + The first is Edit > Preferences > Monitoring > + Record monitoring handled by. There are two or three options here, + depending on the capabilities of the hardware.
- -- If Ardour is set to external monitoring, Ardour does not do any - monitoring. + The other setting is the Session > Properties > + Track Input Monitoring automatically follows transport state + (auto-input).
- -- 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. + 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.
-- Unarmed tracks will play back their contents from disc, unless the - transport is stopped and auto-input is enabled. - In this case, the track monitors its live input. -
- -- 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. + If Ardour is set to external monitoring, Ardour does not do any + monitoring.