Sonar and Waves mono, stereo, and mono-to-stereo plugins.
They got me the other day with their Gold Bundle sale, so I installed the 35 plugins and then this happened:
(For those wondering, no this is not an error. For example they include
sixteen versions of just their C1 Compressor between gated, non-gated, sidechained, non-sidechained, gate only, mono and stereo for each, and double that up again for vst3 versions.)
So my question is this (pertaining to mono/stereo)
- for use with Sonar, which can I confidently exclude from my plugin list in order to depopulate this bloat? From what I understand (cant find the forum thread now) the plugins featuring a mono-to-stereo version are out the window first as they have no effect in Sonar, so thats about 50 gone right there. But as far as the mono and stereo versions a quick readup suggest mono version just take up slightly less processing. So do the mono plugins have any specific use at all? and if so which ones and how?
A quick play around showed that a mono C1 and a stereo C1 both had the same effect on a mono track. The drawback on the mono version became apparent when trying to insert a stereo reverb following it in the same fx bin. No matter if the interleave of the track was set to stereo or not, the presence of the mono plugin earlier in the chain prevented a stereo effect. The track output stayed audibly mono. This was not the case when using the stereo C1 on the mono track. The stereo plugin treated the mono signal normally and then a stereo signal was output following the reverb.
Can anyone help clarify this? Are there certain plugins or scenarios that NEED a mono version, because otherwise I would prefer to exclude them all and control the stereo image of the track with the interleave button if need be, or am I missing something here?
post edited by perfectprint - 2014/12/03 00:29:59