Mono to Stereo samples

AWM · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject: Mono to Stereo samples

This is probably an easily answered question.
Im using Cubase SX, i have a couple of tracks made up of mono samples and the rest of the tracks have stereo samples. I was wondering if there is some way to convert the mono samples to stereo.

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:

What kinda samples..?

Making them stereo pretty much means some sort of processing..

Let us hear the song?

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

You have a track now that is in mono? And you want this to kinda have some spatial movement? Is this piano? Drums? Bass?

AWM · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

Yeah, i have tracks that are now in mono and i want to spatialise them. I find EQing and panning with mono samples doesn't give the right effect .

The samples were originally piano and a bass note, although i have heavily processed each of them (pitch shift, time strech, ringmod, distortion, delay ect), so they become almost noise. In Cubase can you bounce a mono track to a stereo file?

The song is kind of industrial trip hop, sorry its in its early stages and not ready to be herd by others yet.

mosc · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

I don't know what you can do in Cubase, maybe if you have a phase shifter module or VST you can run the mono through to phase shifters set to different values. Send on to the right and one to the left and you'll get amazing stereo.

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject:

Sure, you can print a stereo file from a mono file. You already have a lot of excellent plugins you can use for creating that spatiality. try sending the signal into a good stereo reverb.. then into a stepfilter. A great way to add some stereo feel to it is using stereo reverb before the real processing.

zynthetix · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

if you want a single, finite stereo file of mono samples, you could mix down the two mono tracks (pan left and right accordingly) as a seperate stereo file. Then import the stereo files to your audio pool, add them into the project, etc. I don't know how many samples you are using, so this could be a tedious process if the number is high. If this is the case and you are going to be using a plug-in/effect with one or few settings on a lot of these mono samples, you could mix down all the samples that apply as one stereo track (that is the duration of the song).

paul e. · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

maybe what you want to do is make a 'ghost' copy of the mono track..put the copy on another track..and delay one of them by a few millisecs or shift the waveform by a few ticks by turing off the snap and shifting it around with your mouse...psuedo stereo..this is tricker with bass as this might cause phasing issues, but try it on piano, it's pretty effective

it's a manual. non-dsp version of what mosc suggested

AWM · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the suggestions. Ill try them and see which is most suitibale (posibly a combination).

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mosc · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:51 am Post subject:

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