convert mono to stereo

digsy · Post by **digsy** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:38 pm

i know this is a stupid question but oh well.

i dont think i ever learned the proper way of converting a mono file to stereo in dp during the mixing process.....how does everybody do this?

the way ive been rigging it was by adding a stereo plugin to a track and bypassing the plugin. but i realized this is eating up lots of processor power. yes i have the manual but its not telling me what i want to hear.
thanks.

Spikey Horse · Post by **Spikey Horse** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:50 pm

Not sure quite what you mean....if you are mixing to a stereo file then it will automatically become 'stereo' in a sense. A mono track can be panned to a postion in the stereo field of the final mix, or left central.

It just depends what outputs you have selected for the track's output - eg a mono track can be outputted to 'analog 1' or 'analog 1,2' - you don't have to make any other changes in the track itself.

Is that what you meant?

gearboy · Post by **gearboy** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:29 pm

Copy the track to a second track and pan each hard opposite L/R. Make sure that the faders for each track are exactly the same. If you choose you can work like this or bounce them to a stereo track so that they are both on one fader.

Jeff

digsy · Post by **digsy** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:59 pm

i c but i noticed a long time ago that when i add a stereo plug in to a mono track, and switch to the mixer, it appears to have changed the track to stereo but when i switch to the edit window, the waveform is still mono.
so with all this said, is this track now stereo or is it still considered mono?
thanks

chrispick · Post by **chrispick** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:04 pm

digsy wrote:i c but i noticed a long time ago that when i add a stereo plug in to a mono track, and switch to the mixer, it appears to have changed the track to stereo but when i switch to the edit window, the waveform is still mono.
so with all this said, is this track now stereo or is it still considered mono?
thanks

In the above case, the source audio is mono. You haven't changed the waveform, only the conduit through which it's processed. If you bounce it to a stereo track, that newly-created audio file will be stereo.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:38 pm

chrispick wrote:
In the above case, the source audio is mono. You haven't changed the waveform, only the conduit through which it's processed. If you bounce it to a stereo track, that newly-created audio file will be stereo.

Of course, it will still be a monophonic sound, only now it takes up twice the drive space.

A mono source will always be mono (sounding) unless a sterero (time based) effect is added to make it sound like it's in stereo.

What is it your reason for wanting to make the mono file stereo?

chrispick · Post by **chrispick** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:18 pm

Tim wrote:
chrispick wrote:
In the above case, the source audio is mono. You haven't changed the waveform, only the conduit through which it's processed. If you bounce it to a stereo track, that newly-created audio file will be stereo.
Of course, it will still be a monophonic sound, only now it takes up twice the drive space.

A mono source will always be mono (sounding) unless a sterero (time based) effect is added to make it sound like it's in stereo.

Exactly, yeah. I should've made that clarification.

Well, come to think of it, nobody should have to.