Hi. I have some weird behavior in Cubase 10. When I load up a mono track and add a MONO VST to it the sound is separated into two channels and only one is affected. It behaves the same way as if you were to put a mono plugin on a stereo track.
Example: I’m using a pitch shift plugin right now on a mono track and the left speaker is playing the pitch shifted version and the right is playing the dry.
I thought perhaps the behavior was due to it being routed to a stereo bus but even when it’s just a mono track to the main fader it still responds like this.
Is there a setting or something somewhere that I’m missing?
Some plugins are mono->mono while others mono->stereo, and some vendors like waves supply all possible combinations (stereo-> stereo etc).
I’ve found with Waves that the least trouble free setup is to make all channels stereo and use the the mono-> stereo versions of plugins.
You can still have a mono file on a stereo track, and this will also enable you to pan the audio (not possible on a mono track).
There can´t be many use cases for a mono track really, perhaps something like audio books or whenever the output is a mono track.