Fade Out Issue

Cubase
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Greetings All:

I’ve been experiencing a strange Fade Out issue for the past several years in Cubase 13 Pro that I’m finally reporting. For the record, I’ve been using Cubase since 1997 (version 3.5) and this is the first time I’ve had this issue.

Problem: I highlight the end of two guitar tracks that were individually recorded and panned right and left. I can clearly hear the guitars in “stereo” and hear each separate performance.

But when I highlight the very end of a phrase in which the guitar “stops” or “chunks”, to clean up the hand noise, the Fade Out function converts the two separate files into one Mono signal. Even if I remove one of the files from the Project and re-insert it into a brand new Track and Lane, it’s still In Mono. The stereo separation is gone.

If I Undo the Fade, the files return to stereo. I’ve turned of Musical as a Lane Type but that doesn’t change the results of the process. The tracks are still in mono.

This is really confusing because I’ve been performing this type of process for nearly 30 years yet now, if I want to clean up the end of a phrase or file, I have to process them individually, which of course takes twice as much time.

Is there a solution to this issue? Thanks in advance. :slight_smile:

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in my head there are some missing steps to what you are doing?

you have recorded 2 mono guitars, then pan them and they sound like you want?

then it is a stereo track? but when you make a fade on the end then it becomes 2 mono tracks again?

how do you do fades? if I put fade on the end of an audio file it is a simple non destructive process. I would just select the 2 tracks, go to the top right end of the audio file and make a fade out as I want. It is such a simple thing in my head I do not understand why I would even be thinking about musical lane type or anything else?

to me it sounds like you are processing the audio somehow and the settings are mono? are you using the render in place maybe? it would render each track by itself