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Apogee ONE | User’s Guide for Windows
Figure   B.
By routing the hardware input directly to the hardware output and mixing in playback as shown in
Figure B , it’s possible to provide the vocalist a headphone monitoring signal with a much shorter
delay. First, the signal being recorded (in this case, a vocal mic) is split just after the A/D stage and
routed to both the software application for recording and directly back to the hardware outputs without
going through the latency-inducing software. This creates a low latency path from mic to headphones.
Next, a stereo mix of playback tracks is routed to the low latency mixer and combined with the
hardware input(s). This allows the performer to hear himself while listening to playback tracks without
a confusing delay in order to comfortably record overdubs.
Note that the software application’s mixer is used to set a stereo mix of playback tracks while the low
latency mixer is used to set the balance between the stereo playback mix and the hardware inputs.
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