Separate Left and Right audio into two tracks?

what do you mean edit one of them?

I use tools/wave editor to do this frequently.

Sony Sound Forge or another stereo editor.  I can't think of a way to split stereo tracks in SONAR offhand, tho I'm sure there is a clever way to do it.

You do not have to export it out of sonar. You can to bounce to tracks and select split mono. This way you keep it all in Sonar.
Exporting will take it out of sonar and you'll need to import it back in...So just select Edit > Bounce to Tracks and select Split mono..
Its easier than exporting it in my opinion. Less steps and less time is taken to do it. That's easier in my book
Cj

NoKey,

why do you want to do it all in SONAR?

Is it the cost of a two track editor? There are a few free ones that work real well.

The task you and CJ have described is done more efficiently using the Tools/Wave editor... just as it was intended.

all the best,
mike

The split Left and Right feature has been within SONAR since the very beginning... but it is a time waster IF you intend to use the two tracks as a two track.

It is effective when your intention is to split the tracks and leave them split.

For example; when you import a two track from a video camera, the content comes in as two track stereo format even if the two tracks have disassociated content.

In that case... separating the track within SONAR into it's individual components is very efficient.

all the best,
mike

mike_mccue


NoKey,

why do you want to do it all in SONAR?

Is it the cost of a two track editor? There are a few free ones that work real well.

The task you and CJ have described is done more efficiently using the Tools/Wave editor... just as it was intended.

all the best,
mike

Hi Mike,

I'd do it wherever, but if what I need to do can be done in Sonar, why should I want to do it elsewhere?

I don't doubt that there be better ways, but the situation does not merit investigating further options for me. For instance, if this couldn't resolve in Sonar, I think this can also be done in Audacity, but bouncing there in Sonar is comfortable enough.

Crg


I don't why you couldn't choose a left input for one track and a right input for the other track? If you have a two channel input source. Most inputs in Sonar are left, right, or stereo 1&2, 3&4, etc.

Thanks for the comment Crg,

My need was to just lower the volume a tad on one small piece of already mixed track from MIDI. I noticed in the stereo track that since the one instrument had a slightly high volume, and it was VISIBLE in the Right track, If I just would do a -3Db standard edit, it should do just right. But since this track contained basically all the backing  minus the vocals, I did not want to go and edit the original source just for this small change.

I could have just clip the minute portion in the Stereo format and do a standard -3db edit. I've done that before and results are acceptable.

But that alters both L and R in the clip. So, much better if just edit just the Right channel, where there was a very obvious visible, and audible little too high amplitude in the wave, not cliping or distorting, though. The edited part was less than a second in duration, and complete from raise to decay. So separate into L and R and just set an editable clip in that portion, and do a standard -3DB did it. Then combine the L and R back into a Stereo single track.

The instrument was a solo, much panned to the Right, all else was about OK, just this little bump too high, so I found this practical to do.