I’ve just come across this - I recently discovered tape machine monitoring (think it was Dom Sigolas) and thought “great - just what I need” and then was utterly perplexed when random tracks weren’t being exported. Took me a while to work out the cause (they were accidentally selected at the time of the export).
I’m presuming it’s the way it’s supposed to work but I’ve no idea why. I do not see the logic - surely at the point of export all monitoring should be turned off?
So, it seems tape machine monitoring is too risky for me to use for now as I can’t afford to export something that might be missing tracks. Real pity.
During the export, some users want to play some tracks live. Therefore, the Monitor-enabled tracks work this way (the very same way, as they work in the sequencer; Monitor-enabled = the signal is passing from the input; Monitor-disabled = the data from the track is played back).
I’m can’t pretend to understand why this is useful for others but I’m quite sure that I won’t need it. In the meantime, I’ve written a macro to automatically switch off the monitor for any selected tracks before opening the audio export and that seems like it might solve the problem and allow me to continue using the Tape Machine monitoring (which is otherwise useful for tracking vocals/guitars).