Cue Out and output routing

In this section, we will investigate how you can take advantage of the Cue Out function to, for example, be able to hear the metronome in your headphones without your audience hearing it.

We are also going to have a look at how you can set up an external mix and a separate mix for you in your headphones, which can be extremely helpful when you are singing or playing an instrument during your performance, as you might want to hear yourself singing or playing louder than you want your audience to hear you in order to nail all the notes.

This is all possible within Live if you know your routing options.

We already briefly talked about what Cue Out does in Live and how you can turn the Solo buttons into Cue buttons. You can recap this in the I/O on Master Track section of Chapter 1, Taking a Quick Tour of Ableton Live 11.

What I really want to talk about here is using Cue Out to send the metronome into your headphone mix without your audience hearing...