I’ve been trying to figure out an easy way to mix in mono in cubase.
Does anyone have a nice method or workflow for this?
I remember older version of Cubase had a simple mono button.
I tried Setting the easily bypassed panning options on the Stereo Out to be “Stereo Combined Panner” and centered both sides… But I don’t think this is a good way to do it since it just forces left and right to be Centered, rather than just playing the true Mono field.
You don’t say which flavor of Cubase you are using (hint: that’s why we encourage folks to put their specs in their signature), but if you are using Pro then you can set the output to mono in the Control Room.
If you use the control room there’s a button for monitoring in mono.
I find it more useful to monitor through one mono monitor rather use a stereo pair with a phantom centre. So you could turn off one monitor or buy on extra monitor
Sorry, Cubase Pro 9.0.20
Can you be specific where in the Control Room?
I see Downmix presets has a MONO - But when I select it and see that it is powered… nothing changes. I still hear my audio hard panned.
Thank You! Apparently there was a lot about the Control Room I did not know…
I previously had everything configured to Stereo Out in VST Connections.
Just changed it to Studio Monitors.
There’s no such thing as “true Mono field”. There’s the mono sum - which this method and the control room method both offer, identically - and then there’s the phantom image, which can’t be derived accurately through an algorithm (i.e. you can expect lots of artefacts, latency, and weirdness).
I usually don’t use the Stereo/Mono button in the Control-Room-Mixer because it has a short audio dropout. Instead I just insert simple mono-plugins and Analyzers there, like flexionmusic wrote. When using the Listen-Button, you can use these plugins for every single channel too.
Normally I just put the stereo enhancer(I think that’s what it’s called…its stick with Cubase plugin on the maser and switch it to mono. I just wish I could set the bypass of the plugin to a key command.
control room - setup - and theres inserts below volume knob that affects only monitor output. i put there voxengo msed to monitor mid and side separately, also theres my metering plug and magic ab. very handy stuff.