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Svampe
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Posted : Sep 5, 2013 00:30:47
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Hi there,
I read a little about mono and stereo, when it comes to bass and drums. But then i got a little confused.. I came to the conclusion that the kick should be in mono and preferably ther perc too. So i checked my sample library, and all my samples was in stereo 
I guess it's really up to myself? But does it make a big difference if my kick, bass and so on, is in stereo or mono? And why?
I dont really get it
I hope some of you can help me out here.
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Fakso
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Posted : Sep 5, 2013 00:37
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well I feel that with stereo kicks etc. loose punch
afaik I've never seen kick samples in stereo
+ I read that club systems are wired in mono for the lowend mostly even today so it would be good if in your tracks the lowend is mono too
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TimeTraveller
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Posted : Sep 5, 2013 01:25
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commercial sample libraries release they stuff only in stereo. Mono doesn't weight that much as double mono or pseudo'stereo'. You probably won't find a kick in true stereo in any commercial sample library. Don't worry about the two channels when you analyse your kick sample - it still is centered.
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Agorit
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Posted : Sep 5, 2013 06:06
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do ur mix with mono compatibility. i think its good |
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Upavas
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Posted : Sep 5, 2013 06:45
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supergroover
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Posted : Sep 5, 2013 08:28
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Svampe
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Posted : Sep 5, 2013 11:54
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On 2013-09-05 01:25, TimeTraveller wrote:
commercial sample libraries release they stuff only in stereo. Mono doesn't weight that much as double mono or pseudo'stereo'. You probably won't find a kick in true stereo in any commercial sample library. Don't worry about the two channels when you analyse your kick sample - it still is centered.
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Ok i think i get. But if i make a kick in lets say Dune, then press the mono button to make sure it's mono. Then i render it to a audio clip, but it still end up like a stereo sample. Unless i mark "convert to mono" in ableton when i render the sample. So does ableton make a "pseudo-stereo" sample? or didnt i get anything right ?
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On 2013-09-05 06:06, Agorit wrote:
do ur mix with mono compatibility. i think its good
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How can i do that? I think i will check it out.
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Svampe
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Posted : Sep 5, 2013 12:16
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If I choose to make a bass sound in lets say zebra. I mostly choose the retrigger function which is monophonic, so guess my bassline is in mono? So would it still be good to use the basslane plugin?
I guess the sound can spread a little, depending on the fx i use on my bass?
i hope it's understandable.. im a little confused.
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supergroover
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Posted : Sep 6, 2013 10:19
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A retrigger function only makes sure the sound starts at the beginning of the cycle each time a midi note is hit. It has nothing to do with being mono. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
By default audio and midi channels are stereo I think.
It depends on the DAW how you set up a mono channel.
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Svampe
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Posted : Sep 6, 2013 13:21
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Yea it's just because i use Zebra2 atm and in the manual it saýs:
Retrigger: monophonic, each new note triggers the envelopes.
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demoniac
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Posted : Sep 6, 2013 14:16
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Svampe
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Posted : Sep 6, 2013 14:39
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On 2013-09-06 14:16, demoniac wrote:
So much confusion!
Mono on a synth refers to Mono/Polyphony
Mono channel on a mixer refers to Mono/Stereo
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I got even more confused after making this topic 
So i just need to make sure, that my kick and bass channels are mono and not stereo?
And i dont have to care about the synths mono/polophony?
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A.Rosengren
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Posted : Sep 6, 2013 15:05
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synths mono/poly refers to if they are able to play more than 1 note at a time.
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mudpeople
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Posted : Sep 6, 2013 15:55
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The way I see it, is that stereo is just 2 mono channels with hard-coded panning.
Say you break a stereo audio file into a left and right mono channel. You have 2 mono tracks occupying the same pan position. Pan one one way x%, the other the same but the opposite direction. Voila, a stereo track, that you can control the volume and pan of each channel.
A mono kick and bass, at 0% pan, will come thru both left and right speakers equally.
Take a mono percussion sample, and pan it x% left, and it will only occupy the left side of the stereo master-out, whereas a stereo sample, panned the same, will have a right x% as well as left %. So basically if you use mono, you can set precisely where in the stereo field your percussion sample is occupying, but a stereo version of the same has 2 channels, with their pans hard-coded relative to one another. So say you pan a stereo sample 10% left, and a different stereo sample 10% right, their right and left channels might overlap or crosstalk, but if you did the same with 2 mono samples, there wouldn't be the same overlap.
So, graphically, sorta like this:
-----|----- <mono
----[-.-]---- <stereo
---|--.-----panned mono left
---[--.]----- panned stereo left
[ = left, .= center, ] right
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PoM
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Posted : Sep 6, 2013 16:00
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to the op you dont really need to care if your sample are mono or stereo.. just if it sound good..
something mono both left and right speaker output identical sound so it sound in the center when not panned. |
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