bringing 2 mono files into 1 stereo track.?

[n8tron]

how can I bring 2 mono files into 1 stereo track? is there an easy way to do this rather than rerecording a new file?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

how can I bring 2 mono files into 1 stereo track? is there an easy way to do this rather than rerecording a new file?

Rename them in the Finder. New_name.L (and) New_name.R

"New_name" being the ...duh!... new name.

[n8tron]

they are already named that way. I have a few pairs of mono audio files bounced down that I want to bring into dp. I want them on a stereo track so I can use 1 plugin for the 1 stereo file but when I import them I have to do it individually and they come as mono files.

[art bain]

What type of files are your mono tracks? (wav? MP3? aiff?)

Digital Performer wants to see Sound Designer II files in order to combine 2 monos into a stereo. Here's how I do it . . .

A friend sends me some dubs of a stereo electric guitar pass (usually mailed to me on CDR. (Sometimes emailed as MP3's, but most of the time on CD as 2 mono wav files. I open the song document into which I want to import, drag the 2 mono files directly from his CDR into the soundbites window. DP converts the wav's into SD II files, although they'll still show as 2 mono files.

Now, I go to the Finder and locate these new files in the Audio Files folder of the song I'm importing into. I make sure they're named "guitar.L" and "guitar.R", then shift/select both files at once and drag them directly from the Finder window onto an open stereo track in the sequence editor (or tracks overview window, if you desire). Voila! A stereo track! Works every time.

Hope this helps.
AB

[n8tron]

er... i just noticed something really strange, first if I import or just drag into the soundbites window the files remain aiff, and any mono tracks that I drag to the tracks window still remain as aiff files and play fine. I thought dp didn't support aiff at all, did something change in version 5?

[Appalachian Boy]

go to audio files in your project folder, they are sdII there, if not i dont know waht to say,

you could bus the left track to bus 1 and the right to bus 2, then record on a stereo track with an input of bus1-2. then you would have a stereo file.

[n8tron]

they are actually aiff in the project folder as well.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

go to audio files in your project folder, they are sdII there, if not i dont know waht to say,

you could bus the left track to bus 1 and the right to bus 2, then record on a stereo track with an input of bus1-2. then you would have a stereo file.

Also, route them both to an AUX track and process the aux track.