No way to escape input monitor?

[Brian Middleton]

Lately I've relegated my 896HD to the piano room and the laptop, while using my Onyx 1640 down in the main basement studio. But I'm running into a very annoying problem. Apparently with my setup, there is simply no way to disable input monitoring on a record-enabled track. Turning Audio Patch Thru to 'off' doesn't do it. And Direct Hardware Playthrough is grayed out.

My workaround is to create a bus, called "mute bus," in the Bundles window, and route tracks I'm recording to that (unassigned, of course, to any output). But this means that every time I want to hear playback of a track I'm working on, I have to change the output assignment. Not the end of the world, but awfully clunky.

Is there really no simpler, more straightforward way to tell DP, when using a non-MOTU interface, that I don't want to monitor input signal? I feel like I'm back in the dark ages. Or else I'm being really really stupid. I hope it's the latter.

[Frodo]

Take the track off "input"? (The speaker monitor icon per track...) That must be included in your Track Columns Preferences as an visible option.

[Gabe S.]

Perhaps I don't understand your problem, but......can't you just mute the track when you don't want to monitor it?

-gabe

[Brian Middleton]

Never mind. Total, total idiocy. I didn't notice that I had the input track assigned to one of the subgroups on the board. It wasn't assigned to the main LR bus, so I thought any signal must be coming from the DAW return.

James, any chance we can delete this thread?