Okay, so here’s a topic that I’ve never gotten sorted and would save me a TON of time if I could do it…
Forgive me if this is common Cubase knowledge in any way - but I receive alot of files from clients to mix on a regular basis. Alot of the time they will give me the files that were clearly separated out (probably by Pro Tools by the look of it) into their separate L and R channels and made mono. My question is - is there a way or a setting in Cubase that will allow me to import them as STEREO INTERLEAVED files? So they appear in my project as a single interleaved stereo file? Does this make any sense or does this sound silly? I know for a fact that Pro Tools will do this, and most times not even ask you about it first.
The reason I ask is because alot of times there’s these synth tracks that are broken up into left and right channels, and it would save me a step (and ultimately ALOT of time as there are many) if I did not have to import them, then group and re-render them as stereo channels just so I can treat them as such.
There’s a simple batch interleaver program that may work for you depending on the naming of the files…if they are “whatever L.wav” and “whatever R.wav” this works great. But if they have _L and _R or anything other than a space before the L/R it doesn’t seem to recognise them as a pair.
Just drag in as many pairs as you want…it’ll list the single file to be created and you hit process (make sure to set destination folder)
hmm… would anyone be interested in putting in a feature request? This seems like functionality that should be available.
I’ll be happy to write it up, but would need folks to +1 it… any takers?
I have an analog question somehow. similar. Though it is about Exporting a stereo Mixdown from two separate tracks.
After a recording of my opera by a pro engineer I received two separate files named respectively Neige de Soleil mix 18 aout.L and Neige de Soleil mix 18 aout.R. So I understand that those are two separate L and R files. But when you want to send that to a radio program for instance, don’t they need one interleaved file, where you decide how to pan the stereo.
I see in Cubase that files are stereo on one track, in other words I see two signals on one track.
What sould I do then, enter xxx.L on on mono track, pan 100% L, then xxx.R on another mono track, pan 100% R and then Export one interleaved stereo track??? I am not an expert and I don’t know what is the standard procedure. Thanks for the help.
Daniel