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Stereo to mono sources

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TKS
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Stereo to mono sources

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When I use a stereo input as main source (for listening) and also want to completely visualize this input I have to additionally provide a mono-downmix to get the signals from both channel together which makes the project bigger.

It would be nice to have a checkbox to be able to have a mono-downmix of the 2 channels as source without the need of an additional file.
Sadler
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Re: Stereo to mono sources

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You can always combine audio channels using globals and expressions. I demo this in this tut.

pyc
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Re: Stereo to mono sources

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I'm not sure you really mono'd it here. You just added Volume parameter of left and right channels to one another, I don't think it's actually a mono signal that actually gets analyzed.
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Re: Stereo to mono sources

Post by Sadler »

Yes, you're right. It won't work for several parts of Magic (iterator frequencies, audio to image etc) but, in the absence of an actual mono-source, adding (or averaging) reactivity from multiple channels would give a similar effect in many cases.
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