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Title: What is Soundly Monitor?
Canonical URL: https://getsoundly.com/faq/what-is-soundly-monitor/
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Source: faq
Source path: _faq/what-is-soundly-monitor.md
Date: 2022-08-24T13:09:27+02:00
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The Soundly Monitor VST3 and AAX plugins serve as a virtual audio output from the Soundly App to your DAWs. 

Soundly Monitor is prefered over ReWire as it offers full multi-channel support.

To change the number of output channels in the plugin, you must first disconnect by selecting another output device in **Settings** and then reconnect to the plugin.

The plugins comes pre-installed on Windows. 
On Mac, go to **Settings** and install the plugins under **Audio Device**