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[OFF]

NO dvyce its not what you said it's how you said it. REally hurt my feelings....dude why can't you just take the damn apology... anywayz... Okay dvyce the O'great one your saying i should have the kick the snare and the bassline and hihats in stereo?.....

Nope. Its like this. Export the kick from FL. It will come out as a stereo file. In pro tools select import file to reigions bin. Import the whole file of the kick. The whole stereo file. But when ur dragging it out to a track in Pro Tools only drag the left or right side. All the stuff you mention go in mono naturally.

As dvyce was saying if you have a sample for example, some old sould sample. If you sum it it'll sound dead and empty and lose its stereo spread. All he was sayin is watch what ur doing when changin files to mono. Like certain instruments are better in stereo an some are in mono

 

[dvyce]

NO dvyce its not what you said it's how you said it. REally hurt my feelings....dude why can't you just take the damn apology... anywayz... Okay dvyce the O'great one your saying i should have the kick the snare and the bassline and hihats in stereo?.....

Everything I said (including the things I said after you started getting obnoxious) was said in a nice and respectful tone... and if you took it any differently, then that is just something you are putting on it... go back and read what I wrote and you should be able to see that.

Now, even though you are being a complete jerk ("okay dvyce O'great one your [sic] saying i should have the kick the snare and the bassline and hihats in stereo?") I am going to answer your question anyway for anyone else out there who is confused.

i never said everything should be in stereo. I said you should not combine the left and right channel of a stereo track into a single mono track.

If your track is mono in FL, then keep it mono.

If your track is stereo, keep it stereo.

If your track in FL is stereo but you want to make it mono (like if it is just the same thing in the left and right channel anyway... NOW LISTEN, BECAUSE THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART...

Do not sum the l and r channel into a single mono track. Take either the left or the right channel and use that mono track.

I think I asked you early in this thread if you were taking about splitting your stereo track into l-r individual mono tracks OR combining the left and right channel into a single summed mono track...

...and you said you wanted to combine the left and right channel into a single mono track.

and I told you that you should not do that.


and by the way, if your sound is stereo, export it stereo. If the sound is mono, export it mono.

That is the guideline..

 

[irthwirm]

gotcha.... just that you can't export mono from fl dyvice... sigh... but i'll just import all stereo like OFF said... just pull in one channel L or R but if i was to do that should i pan the sample to one side when exporting from fl studio or should it just be split equally and only take in 50 percent of the sound when dragging the left channel from the regions list 2 the track list.

 

[OFF]

gotcha.... just that you can't export mono from fl dyvice... sigh... but i'll just import all stereo like OFF said... just pull in one channel L or R but if i was to do that should i pan the sample to one side when exporting from fl studio or should it just be split equally and only take in 50 percent of the sound when dragging the left channel from the regions list 2 the track list.

Thats and option. I'm usually against exporting from FL then importing in FL tho, but thats only cause I have an Mbox 2 pro. I prefer to record my tracks into Pro Tools from FL via Rewire at 88.2k.

If you have an Mbox which does only up to 48k and you keep your session at 16bit/44.1k then exporting at that option in FL is ok. But since 24 bit kills 16 bit it kinda goes against the grain of the standard. Worse yet if you go 32 bit float then Pro Tools won't recognise the file and bouncing down from that in another program only adds to noise and a decrease in quality.

Recording the outputs of FL directly into Pro Tools kinda negates all that.

 

[irthwirm]

is there no way to import 32 float into pro tools. I tried it once and i got that scatchy shiity sound you descriped. Couldn't you just convert it to 24 while importing so its going from 32 to 24 rather then 16 to 24. And should i pan left or right on mono tracks or not? I can convert 32 to 24 in adobe audition and it plays right in pt rather then having to convert fl's 16 bit but i don't want to go down that road again with outside applications. Or is it cool as long as i'm "not converting the stereo to mono"