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This wasn't an issue in Cubase LE4, and it's not an issue in Cubase 6. But for some reason, my new install of Cubase AI 5 for my laptop insists that the monitor button be activated for the current track at all times. How the heck do I disable this annoying thing? It causes the input to feed back into my headphones with a slight delay which really throws me off.

I know that clicking temporarily disables it, but it comes right back on every time I start or stop recording. Is there any way to make it turn off and stay off?

I don't know about your situation, per say, but you said one thing in your speech that caught my ear bone. You said, and I quote, "with a slight delay".
"with a slight delay" when using the monitor button with Cubase means it's a latency issue.
You can change the latency quite easily and it will remember it every time you click on to Cubase.

I know your next question. "how do I change the latency"?
I'm not telling because I want you to figure it out for yourself. The whole "give a fish/teach to fish" thing.
Hint: bigger numbers with latency mean less delay to your ears.

Okay, but I don't want a live monitor at all when I'm recording piano. Delay or no delay, it's annoying, and it's one more thing I have to click in between takes, which slows the whole process down.

My rig only turns on the monitor when "I" click the monitor button.

I'm guessing user error here, Jo-Nair.

But if your rig is doing it automatically, go into the preferences. Tell it NO!

If it doesn't take no for an answer, promise pics of ur dong.

Yeah, I can't find an option in preferences for default state of the Monitor button. I assume I'm not looking in the right place, but the manual barely makes mention of the Monitor button at all, and Googling it doesn't turn up anything similar.

what do you have ticked in a "monitoring" section of a Audio System Setup dialogue? (this is in preferences, I assume). I am more familiar with Cubasis, Cubase LE, 5,6 and a bit of Nuendo. I don't know how these differ from your version. Much of a muchness?

(this is interesting. It may not pertain to you directly, but could help and/or point to other places http://www.steinberg.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=64140)

That's all I know unless Im looking at it good luck. I'll thumb thru my own manual when I get home. I feel like I had this problem before .........

Somewhere in the settings (which I unfortunately can't look at), there's a spot where you can change the monitoring to auto/manual. Set manual. I'd try the "record" branch of the settings tree.

Jon, I took a screen shot on my Cubase version (LE). Hopefully it can translate to your version.

In Cubase: file>preferences>in preferences dialog box choose VST>in drop down box on the right for auto monitoring, choose manual>apply>scratch your head>put head&shoulders on the grocery list>cross fingers>reminisce about the last really good pastry you had>put Entenmann's on the grocery list.
Note: If this doesn't stay as your default, you'll have to change the preference in your interface mixer outside of Cubase. But this should take care of it.

Chris, you're a superhero. That worked.

Not sure why it worked, since the tracks in question aren't VST tracks, but it worked! So thank you.

Generic wrote:Chris, you're a superhero. That worked.

Not sure why it worked, since the tracks in question aren't VST tracks, but it worked! So thank you.

Well, it's a Steinberg product, so it is Virtual Studio Technology even though it's not a plug-in as we most commonly think of when we think of a VST. The monitor button is allowing you to hear the inserts and sends on that track, whatever they may or may not be.