Dragging a stereo sample to a mono track

[phillyt2k]

Ok If I drag a stereo sample from the work space to the edit window, and there are 2 mono tracks there, it splits the signal and puts the left on one track, right on another.

Now if I hide all my tracks so there is only one mono track, and now I drag over the sample it just gives me the one track.

Basically, is this a way of having a stereo track be mono? or does it give me half the signal ?

[Stig Eliassen]

No, it discards the right channel. You should see "file name.L" on the clip.

[phillyt2k]

ahhhh I see, I wasnt zoomed in close enough to read the full name. cheers is there a quick and easy way to convert a stereo track to mono or is it just track>split to mono?

[Stig Eliassen]

I just right-click the track name, and split the clip.

If you need both channels combined into a mono file, I don't know of any other way than recording to a mono track.

[JFreak]

Create a new mono aux track, send that stereo file to the mono aux track, there you have your mono stuff available (realtime, no bounce).

[sw rec]

On a stereo track, pan both channels to center. It isn't a mono FILE this way, but it plays back mono.

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by sw rec

On a stereo track, pan both channels to center. It isn't a mono FILE this way, but it plays back mono.

Most of the time yes, but I have found there are some strange circumstances where this leads to comb filtering kind of harshness, so I nowadays do what I suggested earlier. Summing like that seems to be better, but I will stand corrected if it's just me.