My personal feeling is in line with RHarv's on this. I know on another thread, I had requested that we should have the ability to:

1) Split a stereo track to two mono tracks (which can be hard panned left and right for the original stereo separation, or panned as you see fit.
2) Convert a mono track to a stereo track.
3) Merge two (or more) mono tracks to a mono track.
4) Merge two (or more) mono tracks to a stereo track.
5) Merge two (or more) stereo tracks to a stereo track.
6) Merge two (or more) stereo tracks to a mono track.
7) Merge two (or more) mixed tracks to a stereo track.
8) Merge two (or more) mixed tracks to a mono track.

I wouldn't think these would be too difficult to implement, and that should make everyone happy. There are times when I want stereo tracks; there are other times where I want strictly mono tracks. And while yes, storage is cheap, stereo WAV files are still 10MB per minute (mono is half that), so I don't really see the need to double the storage to have the exact same thing on the left channel as the right channel on the same track.

John

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