
12.1. MONITORING 151
12.1 Monitoring
Monitoring, in the context of Live, means passing a track's input signal on to the track's
output. Suppose you have set up an audio track to receive its input signal from a guitar.
Monitoring then means that the signal from your live guitar playing actually reaches the
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 (for instance, a ReWire slave program). 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
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