Ah, ok, sure I will. :)

bitflipper

sharke

bitflipper
That means any time you use a reverb as an insert effect on a mono track, you have just made your track stereo regardless of the original data.
 

Is this true? I always assumed that reverb on a mono track would just be in mono, i.e. no width. 

Here's a simple test. Take a mono track, mono interleave. Insert an instance of Channel Tools and note that only one of the two phase switches is enabled. That's because CT knows it's mono data and is smart enough to automatically configure itself as a mono effect..
 
Now insert the Sonitus Reverb before Channel Tools. Watch the second phase button on CT become enabled as soon as you insert the reverb. CT has detected a stereo input and reconfigured itself accordingly.
 
If you're still not convinced, play back the track while toggling one of the phase buttons. With the phase reversed on one side, the low frequencies drop out as expected - but it doesn't go silent! If it were a true mono signal at this point, flipping the polarity would make the track go silent.

 
This is interesting. I checked the definition of "stereophonic" (although just in a free online dictionary) and it indeed doesn't say anything about width. 

Turn segmented meters off in Preferences > Customizations > Audio Meter

scook
Turn segmented meters off in Preferences > Customizations > Audio Meter

Yup that's universal (either this or that) rather than a "per mono" basis.
I also don't see an option to manually set this per track or bus.
 
ta

Will check the option tomorrow. Thanks. (Nearly 3 a.m. here. Off to bed...)

CakeAlexS

scook
Turn segmented meters off in Preferences > Customizations > Audio Meter

Yup that's universal (either this or that) rather than a "per mono source" basis.
I also don't see an option to manually set this per track or bus.
 
ta

It has always been a global preference setting. I believe it is because the segmented meters rely on image files.

Well #15 was a bit of an eye opener for me....

CakeAlexS
> This makes it easier to identify if it's a mono track or not, but I guess it's not that important.
 
It's something I would like to see, could you do a feature request?

Thanks...

 
I just realized that the single bar representation isn't good, because when the track is playing an audio clip, the track's audio meter should a stereo output (L+R), so there should be two bars (which is the case in Sonar). And when the track is panned, Sonar's meter shows the left/right volume balance correctly even when the Preferences > Customization > Audio Meter is turned off, and whether the two bars are separated or not isn't important, I think (hence no feature request). 
 

 
 
Strangely, it doesn't work like that in Studio One. Even when you pan the track, the meter is still showing just one bar as if it was an INPUT meter.
 

 

There's a button called Channel Mode on the strip (which only appears in the Inspector pane, though) that seems to do the same job as the Interleave button in Sonar. The meter shows two bars when this button is switched to stereo mode, but, strangely, both bars are still showing the same level even when the track is panned. I'll have to consult the S1 forum...