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No MONO outs appearing in DP11 with virtual instruments?
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:04 pm
by hellcat
Hope someone here might be able to help me out (with kind thanks in any case).
I'm having an issue when I use virtual instruments (Spectrasonics, Spitfire Audio, UVI, etc) and when I click the OUT selection, only stereo outs appear (and buses), but no mono selections appear at all.
This means even though I've placed a MONO AUDIO track under it, I still can't route the instrument to record on a mono audio track, only stereo. Very frustrating. Any clues out there why this is happening? Never had this before.
Thanks!
Re: No MONO outs appearing in DP11 with virtual instruments?
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 5:18 pm
by mikehalloran
Not nearly enough information to understand what you are doing. Please be more specific.
Re: No MONO outs appearing in DP11 with virtual instruments?
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:25 am
by FMiguelez
hellcat wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:04 pm
Hope someone here might be able to help me out (with kind thanks in any case).
I'm having an issue when I use virtual instruments (Spectrasonics, Spitfire Audio, UVI, etc) and when I click the OUT selection, only stereo outs appear (and buses), but no mono selections appear at all.
This means even though I've placed a MONO AUDIO track under it, I still can't route the instrument to record on a mono audio track, only stereo. Very frustrating. Any clues out there why this is happening? Never had this before.
Thanks!
I'm not sure if this is your problem, but you need to manually create an equivalent mono bundle. So if the VI output is set to bus 5-6, make a mono bundle with bus 5 or 6 and assign that to the DP return mono audio or aux channel. Depending on which one you choose, you'll get the L or R side. Adjust/compensate for relative volume.
Did I get your issue right?
Re: No MONO outs appearing in DP11 with virtual instruments?
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:08 am
by ng62gn
With some VIs you can create a mono instrument. e.g. EW Opus, UVI Workstation (via VST2), NI Kontakt... Then, mono Aux outputs will be available too.
— Project > Add Track > Instrument Track > choose the 'Mono' version (if available).
Re: No MONO outs appearing in DP11 with virtual instruments?
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:11 am
by bayswater
You can’t always output a VI to a Mono channel. Spitfire BBC SO for example won’t do it. When you load the VI into the instrument track, the listing shows stereo and mono instances available. But you can always route a send in the VI to a Mono bus and use that as input to the audio channel you want to record on.