How to down-mix multi-channel .wav to stereo?

I have 10-channel drum sample wav files from BFD that I would like to render in stereo (using WaveLab) for import into Groove Agent. I’ve selected the Mix-to-Stereo option which works but how do I pan the individual channels into the stereo image? It would be great if there is a mixer plug-in for this so I could adjust amplitude and L/R.

Although I am not controlling the pan, the L/R stereo signals are different inside WaveLab (not sure how that is) and the combined mono mix is being output to both sides of my stereo playback system. So if you can follow this, there are two problems I am trying to solve:

  1. How do I pan each of the 10 channels L/R into the stereo mix output?

  2. How do I route the WaveLab L/R stereo mix output to my stereo playback system? (Both sides are an identical mono mix of the stereo output.)

Mark
(Just upgraded to Cubase Pro 13 from v6 and got WaveLab Pro 12 and Absolute 6 . Getting back into recording after 10+ year hiatus!).

What is “BFD” ?

Maybe insert this in an audio montage.

bfddrums.com/bfd-player/
must be the above software

By the way, I would be interested in getting such a 10-channel file to see how BFD encodes as a .wav file (if I understand you correctly).

Ah, thanks PG1, this is the right link for BFD, except this free player does not load legacy kits. Maybe there is a way but might not be worth the effort. The files I have were created by Sonic Reality for BFD and are not well supported even within the latest BFD3 offering.

I don’t mind sharing one of these wav files with you but the upload utility here doesn’t take wav files. Send me your email address if you want.

The 10 channels reflect 10 different mic locations (snare top, snare bottom, kick, room, overheads, etc) so that they can be blended however you want for different amounts of bleed.

Forgot, I can always just zip it…
master86.zip (3.6 MB)

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