Importing a stereo WAV file to a mono track problem...

Cubase
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Hi guys,

I’m recording a mono mic signal from a Focurite ISA One preamp into a Roland SD-2U digital recorder using the line input, left only, but the Roland SD-2U always creates a stereo WAV file regardless of the signal to only one channel.

My question is, once imported into Cubase, I can’t then remove the ‘spare’ channel from the mono track. Even when I import it into a mono track, it still has two channels… The spare channel also contains a small amount of noise, therefore don’t want to combine it with the other channel…

Any ideas would be very appreciated, I have tired and read everything with no joy…

Thanks

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Cubase doesn’t have an internal split stereo track option…you can export to split stereo and reimport.

Or…You may find it simpler to do this in a wav editor like Audacity before importing to Cubase.

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Maybe have a look at the stereo flip function in the Audio Processing section!

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Thanks for the replies…

The Stereo Flip Subtract will do the job, if I record to the Right hand channel, then Mono Downmix when I export, it’s not exactly what I was looking for, but it will work.

I still think it would be a nice feature to just be able to ‘right click’ the ‘not required’ channel and delete, you can do that to a track, so why not a channel…??

Cheers…