On Sat, 13 Feb 2016, Daniel Sheeler wrote:
What does it mean for a soundcard to provide hardware monitoring? And when you monitor a recording, don't you want to hear a signal coming from the DAW instead of bypassing it or something? I'm just generally confused about what is meant by HW monitoring :D.
A sound card that has HW monitoring, has both a direct output of the audio input as well as the audio from the computer. There is normally some kind of mixer to mix the two together so you can hear them both at the same time. The idea is to not get the DAW to output the audio that you are recording, only the audio that has been previously recorded. Many Audio interfaces (small 2 io units) have a "balance" knob that mixes input monitoring with output from the DAW. If the card itself has no hw monitoring, an external mixer can do the same thing. In fact many of us use an external mixer anyway... just because it is there and also because it is often more flexable.
-- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net
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