Question about buses and sends - Some are missing for me

[cudithekid]

I have PT8 MP and had a question about sends. It says I have 32 buses for sends, but for buses 1-16 they're only available as pairs in stereo (like 1-2, 3-4, etc), while for buses 17-32 I can select the individual channels in mono. How can I get the first 16 to be available in mono?

[RichrdC]

If your track is mono, does it not default to mono busses and I/O's?

[cudithekid]

I thought it would, but let's say for example I have an audio track, if I look at the selectable outputs for buses I have 1-16 only selectable as pairs (like 1-2, 3-4 etc), with 17-32 selectable either as pairs or as the mono tracks (like 17-18, 17, 18, 19-20, 19, 20 etc). For the inputs I only have the option for buses as 17-32, with each one selectable but not in pairs (17, 18, 19 etc). I'm trying to figure out why I'm forced to output to 1-16 as pairs and can't just select the mono parts of them like I can for 17-32.