Hello Simon,
Thanks for the response.
I found this almost a year later. The forum doesn't give notifications of responses etc. it seems.

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.

Stylistic decisions are important as is the opportunity to make them. If the files are stereo in the folder and in the "mix" file generated as well then someone has made a stylistic decision or programming error that renders them mono as a stem.
DON'T get me started on the hideous ringing of the snare top stem in that set either. Now that, I know, is a stylistic decision but one which can be avoided by using the snare bottom instead..hence the absolutely amazing potential of stems.
Bon Chance
ray


Cheers
rayc
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