I am going to use an Avantone mix cube, just one, connected to the left or right output of my interface,
but I need to hear the mix in mono, otherwise I will only hear one side.
any advice welcome? do I need a special split cable and use both outputs or is there a mono button in Logic?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
"one way" throw a gain plugin on the stereo output channel strip and set the gain plugin to mono.
make sure its the "last" plugin on the the channel Strip if you have more inserts being used.
Thanks Indyuser, I found this already, its great.
Is there a reason for it being the last plug in on the channel strip? and by last do you mean at the bottom of the insert list?
Yes - the signal enters the channel strip at the top and is processed through the plugins in the order they are shown. If your last plugin is a stereo plugin then the the output of the channel strip will be in stereo-if the last plugin is mono - the output of the channel strip will be mono.
- Open the mixer
- Select the "Output" track.
- Click the "Channel Mode" button.
thanks Ben
I can see no channel mode button!
this works differently from the GAIN plug in Ben, the Gain plug actually converts everything to mono.
this just makes the main stereo channel a mono channel, I can still pan channels within the mix left and right.
the Channel Mode Button is at the same position as the Input Selector on a Channel Strip.
When you click on it, it splits the single Stereo Output Channel Strip into two Mono Output Channel Strips. This is very handy for other purposes, but not for making quick mono mixes. You still have a stereo mix, just with the left and right channel on different Channel Strips.
Use the Gain Plugin as Indyuser suggested. However, keep in mind that when you bounce your project to an audio file, this will still create a 2-channel file (be careful that a 2-channel audio file is not necessarily a stereo file, and mono doesn't mean 1-channel)
Hope that helps
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This is good to know Edgar, thank you.
I would never actually be bouncing a project in mono, its just for when mixing.
many thanks
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