making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

Can anyone help me change my one mono track into stereo (double mono) in PT LE 7? I have done it once before via a youtube vid but that has been taken down and I have somewhat forgotten the process. I know it has something to do with changing the busses, but every time I do this having created a new track the playback sound goes away. My process is as follows: duplicate the mono track, pan them both to 100% left and 100% right. Change the bus on the outputs of the tracks to stereo bus 1&2. Create a new stereo track. Change the bus on the input to stereo bus 1&2. Arm new track to record and play. At this point I loose my sound and the new track does not copy. My aim is to get dual mono sound out of both speakers from the one mono source.

Any help gratefully recieved.

VM

Re: making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

The easier way to do this would just be to right click on the track and choose "duplicate". Then you'll have a second track just like it, and you can pan them each left and right.

But what are you trying to accomplish with this? It's not going to give you any kind of stereo effect, unless you are putting different plugins on one of them and not the other, such as delaying it, etc.

If all you do is pan them left and right, it's going to sound just like one mono track in the center.

Re: making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

Re: making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

I also don't understand the goal here. A mono track panned to center should sound exactly the same as 2 identical mono tracks, panned hard:rolleyes: Plus, it would waste your available voices on some systems.

Re: making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

My guess is you are wanting to use a stereo only plug in, like some autopanners?

anyway - do as above.... get 2 mono audio tracks

then creat an empty stereo audio track and drag the two onto it

should work

Re: making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

What I've done in the past is insert a mono to stereo digi EQ (or any mono to stereo plug-in) on the mono track and hey presto you've got a stereo track. Then de-activate the plug-in.

Re: making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

My aim is to have mono sound coming out of the two speakers in my car. I have some old cassette tapes I made years ago on a mono tape recorder and I have uploaded them to Itunes via an ION gadget and I want to work with them in Pro Tools, just to top and tail them, basic things. But the sound only comes out of one speaker when bounced on a CD. So I went on youtube to find the answer and was told to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTnfTqdD_6w but it does not work for me in PT7.

So what I basically want is not a true stereo sound but dual mono sound of my recordings coming out of both speakers. There's nothing fancy I want to do with them regarding plugins, I have not learned about those yet as I'm very new to Pro Tools.

Please let me know what you all think, and I thank you for the replies so far. I tried the duplicate new track and drag but failed dismally. I can't drag! I clicked on the timeline and dragged but it only made it bigger because of the zoomer tool, and then I clicked and dragged on the track name and it only swopped them round.

Cheers
VM

Re: making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

As I said, a mono track, panned to center will output from both speakers if bounced and burned correctly. You would be bouncing as a stereo interleaved file:rolleyes:

Yep. I would just bounce as a stereo interleaved file like Albee said. Way simpler than anything else.

That said the way I turn two mono tracks into stereo is by creating a stereo track. Grabbing both mono track regions an dragging them to the empty stereo track. However in your situation that's unnecessary.


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Re: making mono track into stereo or double mono in PT7LE
 

Thanks you both, I'll give it a try and let you know how I get on.