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Originally posted by peter parker:

the "dual mono" synth tracks have one sound on the right side, and a slightly different sound on the left side. and the sound travels back and forth , right to left.....when played together.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Ah, I see now. It's two separate files that form the left and right constitutes of stereo.

so i will import the right side as a mono track, and pan mid right.
and the left side as another mono track and pan mid left.
this way i am actually recreating the stereo effect that happens when these dual mono tracks are combined.
this is a good way to do it right?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Yes, that's correct. However, you should pan *far* right and *far* left - not *mid* right and *mid* left - otherwise you'll be collapsing their stereo width (unless I misunderstood what you meant by 'mid').

Mind you, doing it this way (ie. across two tracks) is clumsy when it comes to editing and effects placement. The better way is as Bastiaan pointed out:

"Name the 2 samplefiles something like "sample.L" and Sample.R". Now protools will recocgnize them as a "split-stereo" and load it on a stereo-track, and treat it as stereo."

This way, you can edit, arrange, and process the two files in Pro Tools as if they're a single entity.

Can one have a whole song of nothing but carefully panned mono tracks?? doubled where needed, etc....
i can actually create stronger sounding stereo tracks this way, right?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Of course! Just about every instrument, including your voice, is mono in essence. It's the panning and stereo effects, including natural ambience, that gives it a stereo image. All this can be performed within Pro Tools.

Except in cases where a synth might use separate layers panned opposite from each other that I want to preserve, I record all my synths and electronic percussion in mono. Why waste two tracks when one will do perfectly? Particularly as we only have 24* of the darn things!

Phil

*24 tracks to be increased to 32 tracks by July 31st 2002 as per Digidesign's announcement. (Fingers' crossed) [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]