Phil O wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:02 am
There's a sneaky way to do this:
1. Create an Aux track assigned to
stereo bus (say bus 1-2) output, with it's input set to your source, and place your stereo plug on an insert slot.
2. Create a
mono bus 1 OR 2. You'll have to manually drag the marker square in the bundles setup.
3. Create a master fader assigned to bus 1-2 and set fold down to mono.
4. Create a
mono audio track with input set to either bus 1 or bus 2 (whichever you chose in step 2). This will be the track you record arm and will be a mono mix of bus 1-2.
Phil
[edit] Alternatively, if you've already recorded a stereo track, you could use the stereo track in place of the Aux track.
Thank you for this suggestion! This is very useful -- while bouncing a track to disk as mono may well work nicely this method lets one record a "monofied" version "in place".
Specifically, in my case, I had a stereo kick track recorded from a drum library that I wanted to convert to mono.
I followed your set up:
1.) Output (stereo) kick track to buss (I used 59-60) and create an AUX track with input 59-60.
2.) On the AUX track/buss I applied Plugin-Alliance's bx_control (v2) with its "monomaker" feature and output on buss 61-62. Seems to work well and is almost always "on sale". (Apologies for the "plug" -- pun! -- but this is handy).
3.) Applied a master fader to 61-62 with folddown set to "Mono".
4.) Minor note: I added a mono audio track but nothing came through unless I set the input to 62 (i.e., maybe I did something wrong but when I set the input of the mono audio track to 61 nothing got recorded).
([edit] Redid this: yes, I must have done something wrong as either of the two tracks -- left or right -- will work, in this case using buss 61 does work fine...sorry for the mix-up)
Bingo! Now have a mono kick track! Super handy -- thank you very much!!!