Advice needed, mono/stereo + 8 outs

I figured out most of the stuff regarding the 8 outs but here's where I need help. I have most of the my drums in stereo (chopped breaks), and I want the kicks, snares and hats on their own track-- what I don't really want is the drums taking up 1/2, 3/4, 5/6. So now I have a whole lot of stereo drums that need to be recorded mono. Is there a way to avoid converting each sound into mono (e.g. a panning trick or something)? Tips are appreciated.

Your wasting out like that....Drums only need to be in mono unles the break has significant <<<<Spelling rotary pan on it

For just hits Mono is your man! Convert them (Batch style)

If you insist then pan in the MPC window and keep pan pot on mixer centered or the other way round - Lol

go to Trim Screen

highlight name of sample

press open window

press convert

choose stereo to mono (Edited, I'm a pothead)

press do it

presto! converted samples from stereo to mono inside the mpc.

bass drums, snares, claps, hats mono- bongos, shakers, congas can benefit from being in stereo but it aint essentially- go mono...

greg

I know what you all are saying, but since space wasn't/ isn't an issue I figured there's no harm in recording my drums (not single hits!) in stereo (besides, don't you lose a few db when converting to mono?). And I know how to convert samples inside the mpc, I would never wanna resort to that though. ~30 songs with, say, 20 drum hits each is 600 conversions.
I guess I'm gonna waste a little time: output the drums in stereo and record them mono. And from now on, use mono drum samples unless i benefit from using stereo samples.

Thanks.

think about it

Logically a drum cant be in stereo. A drum cant come out of both sides. By definition, a drum is mono.


As arctec and others have said, it is important to think in real world terms with drums, how a drum kit is set up in real life, which side a snare comes from, which side hats come from, which side kick drums come from (dead center in a real drum kit!), etc.

it will be though when you step your game up you'll end up making alld rum tracks mono just to free mixer channels up...

greg

I don't need to think about it, TicToc. Think about this: a drum track on a record i.e. a drum break is in all likelyhood STEREO. Therefore, to preserve the stereo dynamics of the original recording it is logical to sample the break in stereo.

You can go to the mixer and pan eg. the kick left and the snare right, then assign both of them to output 1/2. The kick will be on channel one and the snare on channel two.
Remember to check what side of the sample that sounds best!
Peace!

See, that's the type of answer I was looking for. Thank you, avastyle. I thought I had tried that, but apparently I overlooked something while doing it.

No problem!
Work it!

Peace!