I've banged on about this before.
I know I can use a reascript in REAPER to work around this, (seriously, how silly is that?), I've been told I can open the "stems" as stereo in REALBAND, (yeah, & it's the weekend so I can't activate RB without email communication with support as my recording comp is OFFLINE and again how silly is it that an external prog has to be involved?), and export the stuff in stereo but what I REALLY, REALLY WANT is to not have to do anything extra.
Why, oh why are overheads, room & tom "stems" etc. frequently MONO?
The stereo "MIX" that comes with the stems has stereo room, overheads and toms blended in but the actual "stems" aren't stereo.
Someone could at least explain the WHY.
I really thought "stems" would be a major step forward but not being able to mix then because of the mono incongruity makes them of less use than the premix.

Today's disaster was with PopRockShuffle:a:Snare, Closed hat etc,
The overheads, room & toms are stereo in the premix but mono in the stems.
I checked in the BB/Drums/PopShuffle etc. folder and the WMA files there for room & o/heads play back, from inside the folder using WMP or Groove Tune, as stereo.

I'm quite prepared to publicly prostrate myself & perform flagellation if I've been doing something wrong.
PLEASE.

Last edited by rayc; 08/30/25 09:49 PM.
Cheers
rayc
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