Cubase 14 user here. 1 My Vsts will only work in Stereo and nothing will work for it in mono or single channels…. 2 and this has been a long standing issue with every DAW ive used. Export sounds different then when in Cubase. When in Cubase stereo width is not same and volume is not same. Any help would be appriciated…
Thanks
Jesse
Regardless, there are workarounds….but first identify how the inventor has coded the plugin.
Me myself…..I hate stereo vsti instruments….but coders seem to mindlessly get lost in their own stereo coolness….even if inappropriate to an engineer.
The question is: for what do you need mono channels? You can send a monophonic signal on a stereo configured channel, it doesn’t change anything.
Okay, maybe there is the spoiled Cubase Pro user talking. In Cubase Pro we have the Stereo Combined Panner, which allows mono style working on stereo channels.
Unlike with hardware mixing desks the cost of a channel in a DAW are zero (a little bit of computer memory but no money), so there is no reason to offer mono channels. A stereo channel has no issues housing a monophonic signal.
I think knowing the OS is important here, before any meaningful answers may be offered.
For me, most of the differences in sound relate simply to the different paths the audio takes, inside or outside of Cubase, resulting in a difference in volume.
But even in the LE/AI editions you have the MonoToStereo plugin, which despite its name can also mono a track with one click…
Operating system is windows 11
Interface is RME UFX
Cubase 14
Could you maybe explain a bit more precisely what your issues and your questions are? Like, what exactly are you doing, what result do you expect and what is the actual result?
So when I put on a waves plugin vst mono it doesn’t work just doesn’t do anything when I put it as a stereo it works.
The other issues is the stereo and level Quality of sound coming out after exporting is different than I’m working within Cubase. The sound level stereo image and other things are different. I tried exporting the exact sound, and it takes longer to export, but still no change.
I hope this helps explain the situation further thank you to everybody out there who is trying to give me a hand and figure these things out
Since Cubase only has stereo tracks, why would you use a mono plugin? (I don’t mean that in the sense of “are you crazy??”, I’m just curious.)
I think maybe Pro Tools has mono tracks, but not Cubase. If you want mono you have to use a mono Group.
The standard test is to export the audio and then import into Cubase again (into a new project). Does it sound different then?
We had several people that claimed that Cubase changes the sound on export. None of these people could ever proof it in any way. It was always either they were listening to the exported file in a different software with different settings or they were claiming only they and their friends could hear the difference.
I ll give it a try re importing into Cubase
There have also been cases where people reported exported audio sounding different (in that case quieter) when the issue was that they used the Control Room in Cubase for monitoring but still had the Stereo out routed to their audio interface in the audio connections.
Regarding the Waves plugins: They are a bit of an oddity in that they provide dedicated mono and stereo versions of their plugins, as VST plugins usually have the ability to detect the channel configuration of the track they are on and act accordingly. It has probably to do with their ProTool legacy and the age of some of their plugins. So of course you need to use the stereo variant on a stereo track.
I didn’t do my homework. Audio tracks have that option, Instrument tracks do not. The OP was about plugins, I immediately thought “Instrument!”.
My bad.
Instrument tracks would have that option if the VSTI developer supported mono outputs. Most simply don’t, I think the only one I have encountered is Kontakt (Edit: and Battery. EditEdit: and AddictiveDrums. So there are some more.).
