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186Logic Pro User Guide
Turn on input monitoring for an audio track
• In Logic Pro, click the Input Monitoring button (with the “I” icon) in the track header.
Click the Input Monitoring button again to turn off input monitoring for the track.
Note: Input monitoring always involves some latency. The amount of latency depends on
the audio hardware and the driver settings. In certain configurations, it may be best not to
turn on input monitoring, to obtain the best possible timing. Route the signal you want to
record directly to headphones or a monitoring amplifier—and to the audio interface inputs,
for recording. You won’t accidentally overdrive your A/D converters, because the input
level meters display a clipping warning if an overload occurs.
Use track alternatives in Logic Pro
You can create and edit track alternatives and switch between them. Each alternative can
contain different regions or arrangements, while sharing the same channel strip and plug-
ins. Track alternatives are like “playlists” for individual tracks that can be used to try out
different ideas or archive tracks at different stages of development.
One track alternative is always active and plays when you play the project. You can switch
between different alternatives to choose and edit the one you want to use.
By default, new track alternatives are named alphabetically (A, B, C, and so on) when
you create them. You can rename track alternatives to follow a different organization, for
example, or to use descriptive names.
You can use track alternatives to easily create comps (composite takes) by copying regions
or selections from different track alternatives into a new, empty track alternative. You
can also unpack takes to new track alternatives. For information about takes, see Record
multiple audio takes in Logic Pro and Record additional software instrument takes in
LogicPro.
When Show Advanced Tools is selected in the Advanced preferences pane, you can
show and use track alternatives.
Show track alternatives
In Logic Pro, do one of the following:
• Choose Tracks > Show Track Alternatives.
• Configure track header components to show the Track Alternatives button .