I upgraded from Artist 9 to Pro 10. I was hopping this feature will be now.
Nop.
Still a pain in the brain…
So, Steinberg, how can you think, a ProTools user, may consider to “crossgrade” to Cubase, when the most used feature in ProTools isn´t in Cubase Pro?
The most pro sound engineers works with OMF and AAF.
At import, in Cubase, you can´t even select 2 mono tracks to go on 1 stereo track.
In ProTools, you can select 2 mono and move them to 1 stereo track, just with 3 clicks.
3 !!!
I was really hopping this feature will be in Cubase Pro 10.
OMF and AAF is a daily workflow today, most of the sound engineers exchange projects this way.
Some splitted waveforms are not on same L-R because speed is necesary for de video editor and he may not stay and put the stereo waves on same tracks, having an OMF, AAF, a little chaotic.
So how can we move some mono, chaotic, waves to combine them in stereo?
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We can´t.
“select them in pool and…”
Really?
When a project may have 200-300 waves?
It can take many hours, and IT DOESN´T KEEP THE ORIGINAL WAVEFORM.
Because in many times we need to make crossfades between waves, and drag the ends to modify as we need the lenght.
So, this way, if a sound engineer must work with AAF, or OMF, he will never choose Cubase.
If you want to gain Pro Engineers, the “move 2 mono to 1 stereo” is a MUST.
Just stumbled across a project that I wanted to do this on too and was a bit bummed that there’s no one-click way to convert a mono track to stereo. Quite sad really in 2019
My guess is that many do not convert their mono audio recordings to stereo.
Some record through a mono bus onto a stereo audio track. You still get a mono recording but many stereo VSTs, which may not work correctly when inserted on a mono audio track, will work/sound much better when inserted onto a stereo audio track.
Try this yourself to hear the difference:
1- Record something (vocal or guitar) from a mono bus onto a mono audio track.
2- Add a stereo audio track to your project.
3- Copy the recorded event from the mono audio track to the stereo audio track.
4- Insert the same stereo type VST (like a reverb) to each track.
5- Listen to the differences between the tracks. Certain stereo VSTs will definitely sound better when used on the stereo audio track.
This is a way to go if this method allows you to achieve the sound you want.
okay thanks @prock “Prock” - I’ll have to sit down and try and figure this out for each VST but that seems overwhelming and my ears aren’t well developed in spotting differences but it’s getting better.
I see that people convert audio files to stereo in studios sessions for mixing so for now I’ll convert the several thousands vocal files I have as I work on each song until I develop a greater understanding what practices mixers have.
No, you don’t have to upgrade to be able to execute this. There are ways around it as described in this thread.
I apologize about the single upgrade option but that was aimed toward those in this thread that have Pro 10 and claimed they couldn’t convert mono to stereo and vice versa.
In the same situation. This is my first feature I’m working on after switching from Pro Tools. I was so excited about the change then such a simple issue is already making me regret the move. How stupid that you can just drag two mono tracks to a stereo track of a stereo track into two monos. How is this still an issues after people have complained for so long.
