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•The lower chooser pair (“Audio/MIDI To“) selects the track’s output. All tracks have audio
outputs, except for MIDI tracks without instruments. Remember that instruments convert
MIDI to audio (page 23).
Within a chooser pair, the upper chooser selects the signal category (“Ext.,“ for instance, for ex-
ternal connections via an audio or MIDI interface), and is called the Input/Output Type chooser.
If this signal type offers sub-selections or channels, they are available from the lower chooser, or
the Input/Output Channel chooser. In our “Ext.“ example, these would be the individual audio/
MIDI inputs and outputs.
14.1 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) (page 205), 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 else-
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