Feature request: Change stereo->mono or mono->stereo on group tracks

Cubase
1

Hello

I really can’t believe that the only way to change a group track from stereo to mono or vice versa is to delete the group track, create a new one, reroute everything again and move effects and automation. There should be a simple switch to change it.

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Not at DAW right now, so might get the terms a bit wrong.

In Pro you can fairly easily go from Stereo to Mono. Change the Panner type from Combined Stereo Panner to Dual Stereo Panner. This gives you independent control over the Left & Right panorama edges. If you set both of those to the Center you’ll have Mono.

3

I am not talking about panning. I am talking about the track type.
The only way to do it is to delete everything and start over.

4

+1

regards

5

But you can set the panning so it functionally behaves like a mono Track.
Would a button that switched between mono & stereo be nice? You bet.
Does that button currently exist? No.
So recreating or panning are it for now

That’s the range of what’s available for you to use right now and most likely the only choices you will have until that magical day in the future when your feature request (which has been asked for at least a decade) suddenly appears in Cubase 26.5. Meanwhile panning is generally gonna be easier and faster than recreating the Track…

6

Sure, but a lot of mono plugins does not work on stereo tracks.

7

Yes, we have too many track types and not enough tool for handling these efficient. Again a modern Cubase design problem.
I loved early Cubase’es because of their clearness of design, but they were over the years building so much cluttered and unsorted functionality and then browsed it over the user interface, that even I get confused. And I’m using Cubase from the early beginning.

But what I think is important:

DONT GIVE UP ASKING FOR A FUNCTIONAL STREAMLINED & EFFICIENT CUBASE!

@Steinberg: This is in your own interest!

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That’s why 99% of the plugins automatically switch between mono/stereo depending on where they are inserted..

Send a mono track to a stereo bus, it’s still mono, there is no stereo information to make it all of a sudden ‘stereo’. You’re simply running ‘dual mono’ which is what ultimately happens when it goes to the master bus anyways.

Unless of course, you want to talk Waves who still feel the need to put out both mono and stereo versions of plugins to really confuse people..