Mono / stereo settings using BFD 1.5 as a VSTi

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2013/05/08 14:06:05 (permalink)

Mono / stereo settings using BFD 1.5 as a VSTi

Hi all,
 
Hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having using BFD 1.5 with Sonar X2. I'm confused about the stereo / mono option when inserting BFD as a soft synth. This is what I'm doing:
 
Create a blank project and drag and drop "BFD All" into the tracks pane. I am then prompted for the "insert soft synth options". Here I am selecting "All synth audio outputs: Mono". Sonar then creates 17 synth tracks individually labelled for the different BFD outputs. But here's the rub: Track 1 is called BFD overhead left, and track 2 is called BFD overhead right, so I imagined that this would be like the output from each overhead mic,  L+ R which should be mono. The problem is that when I enable the waveform preview on each track, the waveform is coming up in stereo rather than mono. The same thing happens with all the remaining tracks as well.
 
I suppose thinking about it, it's not necessarily a "problem" as such, it's just not what I was expecting. Can anyone elucidate? Is there a way of making each track mono as if you were mic'ing up a real drumkit?
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    Kalle Rantaaho
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    Re:Mono / stereo settings using BFD 1.5 as a VSTi 2013/05/08 14:45:15 (permalink)
    I don't have BFD, but I don't understand how a mono track could show waveform in stereo.
    What makes you think it's a stereo waveform? There's no visual difference in a mono vs. stereo waveform. 
    Or are you saying you see two waveforms on each mono track???

    I never use the waveform preview. I think it's a waste of CPU energy.

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    Re:Mono / stereo settings using BFD 1.5 as a VSTi 2013/05/08 15:42:09 (permalink)
    If you see two waveforms when preview's turned on, but your input is definitely a mono source, and the track interleave is mono, then something is converting it to stereo with the fx bin. Many plugins that don't have mono-specific versions will do this.

    Your presumption, however, is correct: inserting a synth this way simply routes every available output to a separate mono track.



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    Re:Mono / stereo settings using BFD 1.5 as a VSTi 2013/05/08 17:01:43 (permalink)
    I'm seeing 2 waveforms on each mono track. Interleave is set to mono on each track. No plugins inserted.
    I agree that the waveform preview is a waste of CPU resources generally; it's just that I was doing some testing and the result is not what I was expected. I don't suppose it matters that much as I won't be printing each track, I'll be mixing down the virtual tracks to stereo in the end anyway. If I was printing each track I'd be a bit more concerned as I would be using twice as much disk space recording stereo instead of mono.
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