<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">its not clear to me that the bus is that necessary or useful. you can</div>
put the FX in the track itself.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div>Yes well, that was my first try but I have a problem there regarding monitoring. I just can't hear the output of the synth when I need to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>When recording from the keyboard, I can only hear my playing record-enabling the audio track, and thus recording both MIDI and audio. I can hear my playing when the transport is stopped though.</div><div>
<br></div><div>When playing already recorded notes, it is not possible to hear them.</div><div><br></div><div><div>The audio goes to the audio track, as if we where recording, say, a guitar. So, I guess I understand the problem. When you're recording a guitar, you don't want to hear the hum or anything from the guitar when playing the recorded audio, so it makes sense that it mutes the live input when playing. In my case, when I'm recording MIDI notes, the audio track is playing so it mutes the input and I can't monitor. When playing back it's the same.</div>
</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><br></div><div>The described behavior is when "Record monitoring handled by" is set to "ardour" in the prefs. If set to "audio hardware", I just never get any sound, except when playing audio data previously recorded in the audio track. With "Tape Machine Mode" on (which I'm not sure to understand), the behavior is the same, except that when the transport is stopped, I only hear sound from the record armed tracks (which might be useful, so I've left it like that).</div>
<div><br></div></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">Its called an "Insert" and its existed in Ardour since the dawn of</div>
time. Whether it correctly handles sending MIDI and receiving audio is<br>
a different question.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>Cool!! Didn't know. When I finally get a stable setup here, will test that option.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div>