Bounce to Disk: Stereo Track and Bounce is 2 Files?

[dougdude9]

I checked the session and it did NOT have interleaved checked. So I thought this was the issue. I checked interleaved and rebounced the track. I tried to pull the bounce to a new playlist on the same track and it still was wanting to put it on 2 tracks.

At this point I went ahead and gave up. I just created 2 new mono tracks and through the bounce on them.

Thanks,
Doug D.

[The Weed]

Why not just create a stereo track and put the bounce there? Or Import After Bounce and just have it create a new stereo track?

Cheers,

[DonaldM]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Bruce

Brilliant! Thanks I was completely unaware of that.

That makes 2 of us. Thanks to Bruce for clearing that up!

[DonaldM]

Originally Posted by dougdude9

I checked the session and it did NOT have interleaved checked. So I thought this was the issue. I checked interleaved and rebounced the track. I tried to pull the bounce to a new playlist on the same track and it still was wanting to put it on 2 tracks.

At this point I went ahead and gave up. I just created 2 new mono tracks and through the bounce on them.

Thanks,
Doug D.

If I'm reading this correctly, you said you tried to pull the bounce to a playlist on the same track? If you try to add a stereo track to a mono track's playlist, it will split. You can set up a stereo track to add to a playlist and will stay stereo...at least that's how its always worked for me.

[jeffro]

Originally Posted by dougdude9

I checked the session and it did NOT have interleaved checked. So I thought this was the issue. I checked interleaved and rebounced the track. I tried to pull the bounce to a new playlist on the same track and it still was wanting to put it on 2 tracks.

The Interleaved option (New Session or Setup > Session) only affects imported or recorded (new) files, it does not affect bouncing. From pg1105 in the PT 11.3 Ref Guide:

Enable the Interleaved option to ensure that all newly recorded or imported (and converted) stereo or greater-than-stereo multichannel files in the session will be interleaved audio files. For more information, see “Interleaved Multichannel and Multi-Mono Audio Files” on page 148.

I still think if you looked at your plug-ins on that track you'd find one that's mono/stereo which will make it look like a stereo track, but it's actually mono so only has room for 1 channel of your file. This is why it's splitting it and putting the R channel on the next track.

After you import your bounced file (with Interleave enabled), you can right+click it in Clips then Reveal In Finder to see it's just 1 (stereo) file.

As said in previous posts, you'll need to create a stereo track to put your bounced file on.

[dougdude9]

Originally Posted by jeffro

I still think if you looked at your plug-ins on that track you'd find one that's mono/stereo which will make it look like a stereo track, but it's actually mono so only has room for 1 channel of your file. This is why it's splitting it and putting the R channel on the next track.

Bingo! I do indeed have a mono/stereo plugin which "MAKES IT LOOK LIKE A STEREO" track. This must be why it hasn't worked the way I thought it should. Its not a stereo track, but it sure fooled me. What do I know... I'm just a wannabe!

Originally Posted by jeffro

As said in previous posts, you'll need to create a stereo track to put your bounced file on.

Yea, I should had done it that way. Instead I just used 2 mono tracks for it and moved on already. In the future, I know what to do now.

Thanks,
Doug D.

[Peter Baird]

Doug,

You asked the right questions, you stayed calm, and you acknowledged the information that solved your problem. Definitely not "wannabe" behavior.

Stay with it.

Best,
Peter