@-Scott.

Please remember that I'm a rookie with daw's so my comments may not be accurate due to my inexperience. I went to the Acoustica forum and registered, and posted the question. The answer was to pan the left channel all the way to the left before rendering. This worked and I do have an mp3 of just the left channel now. However, I still like RB better because I can see and edit both channels at once and then just do a merge/combine without having to generate a new track. In Mixcraft, you can chose the channel, but then that's the only channel that's visible in a track. I didn't try adding the mp3 file again so that I might be able to then have both the left and right tracks visible to edit.

Before I bought Mixcraft, Robh and others suggested that I try to find features that I need in RB before wasting money on another daw. They were right. Still, I like to play with new stuff so I don't consider my purchase a waste. I'm looking forward to learning how to use the effects. I think Tracktion was one that others recommended also. Not sure why I didn't get that one, but I think that it had been changed to something new.

I'm a little off topic here, but you may find that RB has all the DAW features that you may need. As Robh notes, the investment is not only the money but the time also. FWIW

Stan

Cornet Curmudgeon