Operation Manual

CHAPTER 12. ROUTING AND I/O 151
track's output, via the track's device chain. If the track's output is set to Master, you can
hear the guitar signal, processed by whatever effects are used (and delayed by whatever
latency the audio hardware interface incurs), over your speakers.
The In/Out section offers, for every audio track and MIDI track, a Monitor radio button with
the following three options:
The default Auto-monitoring setting does the right thing for most straightforward
recording applications: Monitoring is on when the track is armed (record-enabled),
but monitoring is inhibited as long as the track is playing clips.
Audio and MIDI Track
Arm Buttons.
To permanently monitor the track's input, regardless of whether the track is armed or
clips are playing, choose In. This setting effectively turns the track into what is called
an Aux on some systems: the track is not used for recording but for bringing in a
signal from elsewhere. With this setting, output from the clips is suppressed. An In
monitoring setting can be easily recognized even when the In/Out section is hidden
by the orange color of the track's Activator switch.
Monitoring can be turned off altogether by choosing the Off option. This is useful
when recording acoustic instruments which are monitored through the air, when
using an external mixing console for monitoring or when using an audio hardware
interface with a direct monitoring option that bypasses the computer so as to avoid
latency. Generally, it is preferable to work with an audio interface that allows for
negligible latencies (a few milliseconds). If you are recording into Live with monitoring
set to Off, you may want to make the Audio Preferences' Overall Latency adjustment,
which is described in the built-in program tutorial on setting up the Audio Preferences.