How do I spilt a stero file?

postbop64 · Post by **postbop64** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:19 am

I'm trying to alter some Jamey Aebersold play along tracks for a small gig I have coming up. The tracks have Bass and drums on one side and Piano and drums on the other. I've been substituting his vocal tempo count off with a sampled hi hat and I want to get it so all I have is the bass and drum track in mono. Any suggestions? Thanks

jarok · Post by **jarok** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:06 pm

Hi

Drag your sound bites from stereo track for example to desktop.

To turn a stereo track into separate mono's just strip the L and R from the filenames.

Then you can drag your mono sound bite back to mono track.

jarok

bralston · Post by **bralston** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:14 pm

It is the same thing...but even easier than what Jarok suggested.

Just look in your soundbites folder for that session. (Navigate to it through the OSX browser, not within DP). Find the .L/.R files that correspond to the stereo file you are referring to. Drag those files into DPs track window onto mono tracks.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:27 pm

bralston wrote:It is the same thing...but even easier than what Jarok suggested.

Just look in your soundbites folder for that session. (Navigate to it through the OSX browser, not within DP). Find the .L/.R files that correspond to the stereo file you are referring to. Drag those files into DPs track window onto mono tracks.

Yeah.
Select the Soundbite in DP and hit Option-R to show it in the Finder.

bkshepard · Post by **bkshepard** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:11 pm

I have to say that this is one of the things that ProTools does very nicely. Merely dragging a stereo file onto two mono tracks allows you to treat it as two separate tracks and dragging the mono tracks back onto a stereo track allows you to do stereo processing.