Charlie:

Thanks SO much for the instructions & video!!

That method works although while looking to resolve another real or perceived issue, I may have come across another way that may get similar results.

(My apologies for the novella that follows):

During some experimentation converting the generated click-track to mono using your method from the "Audio Edit" view (Edit>Convert Channels>Convert Stereo to Mono), I discovered that the OTHER tracks were still stereo and couldn’t be converted using this method.

However, if I pressed F7 taking me to the “Track Settings and Actions” window and highlighted a stereo track; if I checked the box “Editable Audio,” I could then convert the channel to mono via the "Audio Edit" view.

This action turned the track ORANGE like your method (Track Actions> Save Track as Performance File (Wav/M4a) without having to save the file first.

So, I did another experiment and revisited the click-track method Gordon introduced me to back on Page 2 of this thread. That method was to pick a "Utility Track", right click and choose “Select a custom MIDI Style for this Track” from the same right click drop down menu. In my previous experiments I chose Metronome 1.

While yielding a suitable click-track, the problem we had was even with hard panning, the resulting click was stereo despite appearing to be on one channel only of the rendered MP3.

With no disrespect intended, this stereo/bleed through result also confirmed my suspicion of the inaccuracy of the suggestion that mono conversion of Mixer channels was achieved via the “Mono” check box on the “Notation” view screen. To me, this result implies the "Mono" check box has nothing at all to do with how an audio file is rendered.

But what do I know...? wink

Ignoring the previous "mono method"...

Instead, after following the same steps choosing a custom MIDI Style, selecting the Drums Track, etc.; I went to this MIDI Utility Track via F7, checked the “Editable Audio” box and what I previously thought couldn’t be converted to mono… could.

So after all of this bloviating, I assume my "orange" result is the same as the "Charlie" method using a "Performance File?"

If so, this bring me to another real or perceived issue…

To refresh the memory of anyone still awake and interested, the result I am after is a rendered two channel MP3 with the click track on one channel and the accompaniment on the other with NO bleed through.

In a test, I rendered an MP3 from a created BiaB file with center panning. After enlarging the resulting channels and looking closely at the waveform on the two tracks, to my uninitiated eye they are NOT the same. There appear to be subtle differences that to my pea brain indicates a stereo rendering.

That leads me to believe that simple hard panning those instrument tracks left while panning the click track right would result in a loss of some of the overall audio on the left track.

When I compare that test MP3 to another test MP3 with hard panning of the instruments channels to one side, listening to each separately my ears are telling me I am losing some of the highs from at least one of the instruments in my mix on the hard panned MP3.

Am I correct in this assumption or are my eyes & ears playing tricks on me??

If so, is there some OTHER method in BiaB to achieve true mono on those instrument channels before hard panning and rendering an audio file other than individually making each track “editable” and converting the individual channels to mono via the "Audio Edit" view? While this method works, it adds several other steps to the process.

I’ve also experimented with creating the mix, rendering it as a single track mono MP3 via the "Audio Export" function (which I assume combines the channels) and importing it back into my song as a mono utility track.

This method seems to be a little less cumbersome once I get used to the steps involved.

Am I finally getting close? wink

Thanks again Charlie, Gordon and everyone else!!!!

Last edited by Appoggiatura; 09/30/22 07:28 AM.