Unable to monitor audio input

Software Monitoring has to be Enabled if you wish to monitor through Logic's audio engine and hear effects...etc.

Start with an I/O Buffer setting of 128.

mikekamikeka wrote:

My understanding of software monitoring is yes, turn that on if you want to play through plug-ins i.e. a guitar amp sim or the like. I just want to monitor the dry direct input. At any rate, toggling that on or off has no effect. I am using a buffer of 128. Thanks for the reply 🙂

I think there is some confusion here.

Monitoring dry/direct is done at the hardware level and is a function of the MOTU hardware and Cuemix software, It's probably true that MOTU's Digital Performer can directly access hardware monitoring. If you had hardware monitoring enabled in Digital Performer, closed that application and opened Garageband, you might still have hardware monitoring enabled. If that's not the case, you were in fact using "software monitoring" in Garageband.

The fact that Software Monitoring gives you no input monitoring in Logic means there another problem, with software monitoring on, and a record enabled track selected you should definitely be able to hear your input source.

I believe there's a new control in Logic X that allows manipulation of the dry/direct input level it was added in an updatre a few months ago. I'm going to try and send someone your way who used MOTU hardware and Logig-X.

Mike,

Could you post a screenshot of you Logic Preferences/Audio are your input and output devices set correctly?

I originally thought this sounds like this is a mis configuration in Cuemix,...

However, that doesn't make any sense given the following statement...

Meter shows good input level and records fine but I'm unable to hear input before and during recording.

If the meters in Logic show an input and it records fine then it's somehow, something set up wrong in Logic.... but as to what that is, it's really hard to say. The Audio prefs look correct to me.. so..

Can you please put up a screenshot of your mixer and channel strip for one audio channel where this is occurring... Maybe Clancy or I can spot whats going on..

Also, to rule out anything that is project specific in Logic...

Create a new project via the New from Template menu option..

Choose...the Songwriter template

Select the Natural Strum Track.. if you are using a Guitar....

or..

Tracking Vocal if you are using a Mic....

Set the input to match the input used on your Audio Interface...

Click on the Input Monitoring button in the track Header....

Make sure the track is Record Armed...

Now play your guitar or sing into your Mic.. (use headphones if needed) and see if you can hear the audio....

Just so there is no/less confusion when anyone else reads this thread..

1) Cuemix is an app provided with the Motu range of devices and is an external mixing configuration application... that can be used to set audio levels and routing up prior to the audio being sent to a DAW...

2) Software monitoring with the Motu range (as well as other Pro audio devices...) generates so little latency its really not worth being concerned about...imho 🙂

Mike,

Glad you got to the bottom of the issue... and yes, as i suspected, it was how you had set up that project/template.. which is all I could think it could be, based on what you were says earlier.

Cheers..

Nigel

The Art Of Sound wrote:

Just so there is no/less confusion when anyone else reads this thread..

1) Cuemix is an app provided with the Motu range of devices and is an external mixing configuration application... that can be used to set audio levels and routing up prior to the audio being sent to a DAW...

Cheers..

Nigel

Thanks Nigel, I'm a bit leery of advising Logic X users these days as there's been several changes/advancements.

If Cuemix is anything like the software mixer/apps that come with Presonus or RME hardware, you should be able to setup hardware monitoring via cuemix.