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Originally Posted by richiebee  The mono switch on your interface is probably for direct monitoring, and you might want to have that mono switch on.
Rich |
That's right, it's for monitoring. If you are recording a mono source like guitar, it is very distracting to only hear sound on one side of your earphones or monitors. Push the MONO button and you get the mono sound equally on both speakers. It has nothing to do with the recorded signal.
To recap, when you add a new track in cubase you get the option to make it stereo or mono. Use mono for mono signals like, guitar, vocals, etc. Use stereo for stereo sources like input from a mixer, some keyboards and drum machines. Then pan them left , right or center as you wish. The OUTPUT of Cubase is stereo (unless you go out of your way to create a mono output) regardless of the inputs.
Now you CAN easily copy a track in Cubase. Open a new track and copy and paste the wav file to the new track. But there is no advantage to this unless you plan on treating each track differently, like adding different effects to each.