Hi,
I’m using ardour 6.5 with a focusrite 18i20 3rd gen input. I cannot set monitoring levels in any useful way. I am using ardour to manage monitoring. When I have a track with record enabled, I hear my guitar input and it’s too loud and I’d like to turn it down. When I mute the track, it’s slightly quieter, but still too loud. When I put the track into “disk” mode, it’s also slightly quieter but still too loud. I would expect mute and disk to make the input track silent.
2 questions:
1: why do I still hear the input when mute or disk are selected?
2: how do I use ardour to set my monitoring so I can adjust how much of the input I hear in my headphones, while keeping the playback at its normal volume?
Likely because the signal is also passed through via another way.
Does this also happen when Ardour is not running?
The Scarlett series allows for direct hardware monitoring, passing though input to output as-is. You can change this with the Focusrite MixControl app.
Does it also happen with a new empty Ardour session?
If not, perhaps your current has a hidden track that is also monitoring input, or a direct connection from input to master-bus.
I figured it out. The focusrite will do what it’s set to do, no matter what, even if you switch to having ardour manage monitoring. Since I use linux and focusrite doesn’t have a control program for linux, I have to connect to it using a mac to set the monitor inputs. If I set it to only monitor daw in the hardware, I now have complete control over monitoring in ardour. The problem really comes from being unfamiliar with the focusrite and the fact that the focusrite doesn’t have a monitor mix knob the way most inputs do.