I am using a Windows 10, and I was using Audacity 2.4.1 then tried downloading the version my laptop had (2.2.2)
I am trying to do 5.1 audio mixing but no matter what i try the stereo track is being exporting in 2 mono tracks and not the original stereo.
On my laptop is exports just fine, it’s always a stereo track but never on my new computer? Does anyone know how I can fix this?
What exactly do you mean?
Do you mean that you are importing a 6 channel audio file and you want to mix it down to stereo?
I can’t think of any way to do that automatically. How are you doing it? Take us through step-by-step.
Have you selected [u]Use Advanced Mixing Options[/u]?
the stereo track is being exporting in 2 mono tracks
Do you mean that you have a stereo (2-channel) file with identical left & right channels (AKA “dual mono”)?
What format? (WAV? MP3?, etc?)
and not the original stereo.
The “original” was 5.1.
Okay here’s exactly what I’m saying,
Yes I am mixing down to a 6 channel audio file (im exporting it in a .wav file), but with the first track in 5,1 audio, it would be stereo. But when i mix it, every other audio track, which are normally mono, stay the same, while the stereo track on top turns into 2 mono tracks. Also they are not dual mono, but what I mean when I did everything, I tried exporting it on both versions of audacity, i tried messing around by swapping the stereo tracks, but none of those worked. When i said original stereo, I meant the first track
In older versions of Audacity, recording or importing more than two channels would produce one stereo track, and all of the other tracks would be mono.
That has been changed in recent versions of Audacity.
What happens now is that recording or importing more than two channels produces one mono track for each channel imported.
If you want the first track to play from the left and the second track to play from the right, use the “Pan” sliders on those tracks. See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audio_tracks.html#pan
OK, I know what you’re talking about.
If you click that little drop-down arrow to the left of the waveform you can select Make Stereo Track or Split Stereo to Mono.
It’s really just the way it’s handled in Audacity (in case you want to edit/process the channels together, etc.). The actual 5.1 channel file is 6 separate tracks/channels just as a stereo file is 2 separate tracks/channels.
I’ve done the make stereo track thing, I also tried panning the first mono track to the left and second to the right, and vice versa. nothing has worked, it still turns into 2 mono tracks. also yes there is 6 channels (2 counting the stereo track, which is turning into both mono)
Actually, I just made this discovery, I was importing another 5.1 audio sample (from a movie, so I had nothing to mess with already). And I made the discovery that it probably isnt a problem when im exporting, but rather it seems that stereo track IMPORTS as 2 separate mono tracks. Any fix?
What exactly does that mean?
What turns into 2 mono tracks?
Where do you see 2 mono tracks?
Any fix?
There is nothing to fix.
A regular 2-channel stereo track has two separate sets of audio data in one file. A 5.1 channel file has 6 separate sets of data.
When you open a regular 2-channel stereo file in Audacity the left & right channels are “virtually joined” for easier editing. It has no effect on the imported/exported files which are always 2 separate sets of data. If you want to edit the left & right channels separately you have to “split” the stereo, but that’s just an editing feature that doesn’t (directly) affect the imported/exported files.
When you open a 5.1 channel file (in the current version of Audacity) the tracks are not virtually joined so if you want to edit all 6 tracks together you have to select all of the tracks.