Bouncing a mono vocal with explode tracks

Hi ,

I’m just trying to export my vocals that I’ve recorded in mpc 2.x (which are recorded mono and show up as mono in mpc 2.x)

However when I export the tracks using “explode tracks” the vocal tracks are coming out as stereo when I drop them in my DAW?

I’ve even tried selecting the output for the vocal tracks to just ‘ out 1’ instead of ‘out 1,2’ and exploding again only for the tracks to still be in stereo?

Is there something I’m missing here?

Thanks in advance.

That's what it is.
If you want a true mono fader to look at get Audacity. You can split the stereo into mono, delete one of the mono tracks and export it out of Audacity. It will be in 16bit.

Bring it in your DAW and you will see a mono level.

Lyricalgenius81 wrote:Hi ,

I’m just trying to export my vocals that I’ve recorded in mpc 2.x (which are recorded mono and show up as mono in mpc 2.x)

However when I export the tracks using “explode tracks” the vocal tracks are coming out as stereo when I drop them in my DAW?

I’ve even tried selecting the output for the vocal tracks to just ‘ out 1’ instead of ‘out 1,2’ and exploding again only for the tracks to still be in stereo?

Is there something I’m missing here?

Thanks in advance.

thanks for your reply Danoc. by "thats what it is" i take it you mean thats just the way it does it and there is no way around it.

isnt that just crazy though? why is it converting a mono track into stereo? listen im no expert im really just starting out on this journey of music production, but if a track is recorded as mono then it should be exported as mono surely?

ive already switched to Cubase pro 9.5 after working with mpc 2.x for about 6 months and there are still things bugging me about it.

the sooner i get the songs i have done on mpc 2.x transferred to cubase the better maaaan.

i guess stereo it is then.

Yep thats what l mean, that's the way it is. Akai has to fix that.
Complain to Akai about that.
Doesn't Cubase have a width button on the audio tracks? If so use that, place it the centerit will kill the stereo width and process like mono and can move quite diligently in the stereo field.
Or get audacity its FREE and do what l said.

Lyricalgenius81 wrote:thanks for your reply Danoc. by "thats what it is" i take it you mean thats just the way it does it and there is no way around it.

isnt that just crazy though? why is it converting a mono track into stereo? listen im no expert im really just starting out on this journey of music production, but if a track is recorded as mono then it should be exported as mono surely?

ive already switched to Cubase pro 9.5 after working with mpc 2.x for about 6 months and there are still things bugging me about it.

the sooner i get the songs i have done on mpc 2.x transferred to cubase the better maaaan.

i guess stereo it is then.

Kool thanks again Danoc, yeh i would of used audacity but my projects are in 24 bit not 16 bit.

ill look into the cubase width setting you mentioned , still learning lots on Cubase its a beast of a DAW.