markmathewsmusic Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Hey there, For some reason Logic has decided, out of the blue, to stop letting me hear guitar plugins. Initially, I couldn't hear any plugin when i recorded, but the plugin sound would be there when I stopped recording and played it back. I searched for a solution and found that turning on Software monitoring and making sure I have the Input monitoring button on in the track header, it recolved this issue when recording - I actully never had to do this before, but it works so that's fine. However, I still can't hear it when I am just playing a track and writing. So, for example, if I drop a drum beat in the timeline that I want to write to, instead of recoridng I just want to play the drum loop and mess around over it until I get something. But even with the input monitoring button on, it still cuts out whenever I hit play. Can anyone let me know what settings I need to change to resolve this, please? Huge thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Input monitoring is for when you want to hear the input coming in from your audio interface, and should only be on when recording/rehearsing with an instrument. It should not be on to play back audio tracks, where you want the source of audio for that channel to be from the audio file, not whatever is connected to your audio interface's input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markmathewsmusic Posted May 28, 2023 Author Share Posted May 28, 2023 8 minutes ago, des99 said: Input monitoring is for when you want to hear the input coming in from your audio interface, and should only be on when recording/rehearsing with an instrument. It should not be on to play back audio tracks, where you want the source of audio for that channel to be from the audio file, not whatever is connected to your audio interface's input. Thanks so much for getting back to me, but I'm still a little confused (apologies if I'm not totally understanding!). The problem is that when I am rehearsing a track I still can't hear the plugin. If I hit record and play to the track I can hear the plugin with Input Monitoring on. However, if I'm not recording and just reheasing I can no longer hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 But you're talking about a drum track you want to play, and you're saying it cuts out when you input monitor your guitar? Are you trying to play and record different things onto the same track? Basically, any tracks that are playing back should not be set to input monitor. And inputs your want to play/hear (ie, the track with your guitar as input) should be set to input monitor mode, which passes the input through the mixer). It's not really clear to me what you're doing, or how you have things setup. Can you do a screenshot showing your arrange and mixer while doing this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution JakobP Posted May 28, 2023 Solution Share Posted May 28, 2023 (edited) Sounds like you need to turn off Auto Input Monitoring, uncheck it under main menu > Record. Hth... Edited May 28, 2023 by JakobP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markmathewsmusic Posted May 29, 2023 Author Share Posted May 29, 2023 20 hours ago, JakobP said: Sounds like you need to turn off Auto Input Monitoring, uncheck it under main menu > Record. Hth... This seems to have done it. Thanks very much! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakobP Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 (edited) You're welcome 🙂 (It's weird though, is it the default setting for new installs nowadays ? This is far from the first time this comes up?) Edited May 29, 2023 by JakobP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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