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Therefore, if you have a track in record enable mode, it will not playback what&#8217;s recorded on the track without taking it out of record enable.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/intro-to-pro-tools-creating-an-instrument-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intro to Pro Tools: Creating an Instrument Track<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/pro-tools-troubleshooting-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pro Tools Troubleshooting Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/my-digidesign-mbox-2-is-not-working-with-my-mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Digidesign Mbox 2 is not working with my Mac.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/im-not-getting-any-input-signal-from-my-universal-audio-apollo-in-pro-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I\u2019m not getting any input signal from my Universal Audio Apollo in Pro Tools.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/analog-factorydpm-correctly-installed-library-applications-support-digidesign-plug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cAnalog Factory.dpm\u201d does not show up in Pro Tools!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[34329,42006,55419,54543,54246,53949,123960,33883],"storecat":[],"itemids":[20943,98763,98764,96533,96537,111928,111929,81240,82496,108138,119228,90192,90193,54038,128431,3661],"manufacturers":[33300],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the What is the difference between Auto Input Monitor and Input Monitor Only in Digidesign Pro Tools Operations menu? page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-difference-between-auto-input-monitor-input-monitor-only\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is the difference between Auto Input Monitor and Input Monitor Only in Digidesign Pro Tools Operations menu? - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Auto Input Monitoring will allow you to monitor the live input to a track when in record or idle mode, but in playback mode, it will always play the audio which is on the track (or be silent if there is no recorded audio), even if record enable is on. 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