Is there a way to mute one channel of a stereo soundbite?

[mikehalloran]

Same here. GB is a quick free way to sketch out a track for a piano player. I use DSP-Q to extract mono files if needed, which is not that often. It lets you select one side of a stereo file in editor, then save or export.

Hadn't considered DSP-Q. Could probably use TwistedWave, too — have both. In a batch conversion, impossible to name the individual tracks, however.

In my case, I often need both sides as mono tracks. One player, Steve, records guitar in one mic and voice in another. His interface, like most of the others under $200 (including the M2/4), outputs the 2 channels hard R/L and that's how GB gets them — there's no way to control this. If he sets the pan pots hard R/L when bouncing in GB, then I get Voice on the R and Guitar on the right.

Selecting De-interleave/Tracks in BTD now gets me those two mono tracks that he can't give me any other way. When naming the bounce, I'll name it (song) Steve guitar voice. The two tracks will show up in the Bounces folder as (song) Steve guitar voice.R and (song) Steve guitar voice.L. I rename by deleting the part of the name that doesn't apply in each track along with .R .L.

Fast and easy.

[bayswater]

In my case, I often need both sides as mono tracks.

I sometimes do. In DSP-Q, you just have to do it in two steps. If I had to do this a lot, I'd find a simpler way, probably with a plugin that uses dual panners.

[cuttime]

Ran across this:

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... _solo.html

[mikehalloran]

Ran across this:

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... _solo.html

I own some of their plugs and downloaded this last year because it was free. Never looked at it before now, Might save some time...

Thanks!

[HCMarkus]

As far as I can tell, and I've looked, GarageBand offers no way to export into a mono file. (If anyone can correct me on this, I'd love to know the method.) I'm getting remote stuff for GB users and it is always stereo files which I deal with one way or another.

I learned of a way... haven't tried it yet, but I've been told if you set the GarageBand export preference to iTunes, after setting iTunes Import Preference to ".wav (Custom) MONO", you'll get a mono wav file result. Looks like it will work. Not sure it's worth the time to change the iTunes import settings, especially since I use iTunes to create mp3s for client mix reviews and would thus have to fiddle with the iTunes import setting on a regular basis.

I've just been converting from Interleaved to Non-Interleaved in DP, dragging to the Desktop, then re-importing the two resulting files (or just one if the stereo file is just a two track mono file.) Not doing this often enough to worry about a faster way.

[mikehalloran]

As far as I can tell, and I've looked, GarageBand offers no way to export into a mono file. (If anyone can correct me on this, I'd love to know the method.) I'm getting remote stuff for GB users and it is always stereo files which I deal with one way or another.

I learned of a way... haven't tried it yet, but I've been told if you set the GarageBand export preference to iTunes, after setting iTunes Import Preference to ".wav (Custom) MONO", you'll get a mono wav file result. Looks like it will work. Not sure it's worth the time to change the iTunes import settings, especially since I use iTunes to create mp3s for client mix reviews and would thus have to fiddle with the iTunes import setting on a regular basis.

I've just been converting from Interleaved to Non-Interleaved in DP, dragging to the Desktop, then re-importing the two resulting files (or just one if the stereo file is just a two track mono file.) Not doing this often enough to worry about a faster way.

Yikes!

I have only two GB users left. One gives me stereo=the same mono x 2 so I leave those alone—her husband works for Apple if I ever get tired of those. The other is the guy who gives me Guitar.L and Vox.R — keeps promising he'll upgrade tp LPx and I wish he'd hurry up!

[JSmith1234567]

Ran across this:

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... _solo.html

BX Solo is the bomb!