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Hey all, I was just curious if anyone could help me out with this. I have the UX1 with abelton live lite 7 and I want to know how to record with the guitar coming through my computer speakers rather then my headphones.

are you miking an amp or DI'ing the guitar into the interface?

DI into the computer with the UX1.

in that case its fine to not use headphones, you would only wanna use headphones when miking to avoid the playback being picked up again..

Right, but I can't figure out how to make that work. I'm brand new to Abelton and am still learning everything and I can't seem to find where to make it just come thru my speakers.

Do you use an audio mixer with audio monitor speakers, or do you use standard computer speakers plugged into a soundcard?

If you use an audio mixer, you use the jacks on the back as your output, into your mixer. If you use computer speakers, then you would use an adapter to have the jack for those fit into the headphone jack on your UX1. If your computer speakers are USB... then, you might have a few extra things to worry about.

if you haven't already discovered the tutorial videos here on the ableton site,
there is an archive here..

http://www.ableton.com/pages/movies/archive/tutorials

in particular, this video should help you out..
it includes recording audio help, and monitoring help, the latter of which you
are having trouble with..

http://downloads.ableton.com/movies/recording_audio.mov

hope this helps to get you going !

e.b.