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Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:00 pm
by spookydirt
I record a lot of tracks in mono, guitars, vocals, bass, etc and having everything flatten to stereo is a waste of CPU and hard-drive space.
So the option in the right click menu of 'flatten to mono' and 'freeze to mono' would be a big help.
I wouldn't mind the option of creating 24 bit files, either...
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:19 pm
by Lieven
+ 1 !
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:29 pm
by friend_kami
+10
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:08 pm
by tscoolberth
So how do we do it. I'm just a newb but I'm pretty sure having a full set of all stereo tracks "aint quite right."
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:23 pm
by JBlongz
For now, user the "Utility" audio effect and set 'width' to 0%. That makes it mono. Now you can copy that effect to each track, or put in on a send track and set each track output to 'sends only'. Boom.
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:24 pm
by cjhoffmn
+1
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:17 am
by JulienFunk
+1
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:05 pm
by juanneco
+1
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:12 pm
by juanneco
The most frustrating part of all this is that I start with a mono vocal track, mono waves tuner, mono SSL channel strip, mono limiter and alas... stereo flattened track. Makes no sense. Please ableton, fix this soon.
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:57 pm
by Stromkraft
juanneco wrote:The most frustrating part of all this is that I start with a mono vocal track, mono waves tuner, mono SSL channel strip, mono limiter and alas... stereo flattened track. Makes no sense. Please ableton, fix this soon.
I agree this is confusing at best. But it's much worse IMO. Live
doesn't even record mono input sources consistently. What's that about?
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 6:52 am
by Warmonger
juanneco wrote:The most frustrating part of all this is that I start with a mono vocal track, mono waves tuner, mono SSL channel strip, mono limiter and alas... stereo flattened track. Makes no sense. Please ableton, fix this soon.
Good point, +1
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:02 pm
by A Frabbit
I'd love this.
+ 1
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:03 pm
by juanneco
Any updates Ableton?
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:55 am
by plasticcastle
bump
I would love to see a mono option for the flatten command. Love freezing and then flattening to "print" fx and also prefer working with mono sources to create a stereo mix for a number of reasons. It would be great to keep files down and reduce unnecessary doubling of mono material. And in principle mixing mono should help create space and keep you mixes less cluttered. Any chance we could see this Ableton?
+1
Re: Freeze/Flatten to MONO
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 12:18 pm
by Richie Witch
Stromkraft wrote:juanneco wrote:The most frustrating part of all this is that I start with a mono vocal track, mono waves tuner, mono SSL channel strip, mono limiter and alas... stereo flattened track. Makes no sense. Please ableton, fix this soon.
I agree this is confusing at best. But it's much worse IMO. Live
doesn't even record mono input sources consistently. What's that about?
I agree! How can you flatten to mono in an environment that cannot create mono tracks to begin with?? LOL Better fix that first.
Yes, you can use Utility to output something that sounds like mono, but is actually left and right channels with identical content. Live records everything in stereo, always, even if it only displays one channel.
