[ardour-users] Sends on Mono tracks

[Jesse Chappell]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Mike Fisher wrote:

> Since I essentially am using one reverb plungin instance for 
> all my tracks to share, a problem arises.  The bus has to be 
> stereo becuase there are stereo tracks in my sessions, and when 
> you pan a mono track away from center a stereo image is 
> created.  So what I do for mono tracks is create a send with 
> two outputs to direct to my reverb bus.  After I create the 
> send, the panning control for my mono track changes.  Instead 
> of having the one control I now two (Like on a stereo track). 
> And the pan setting I had before is now lost.  The one control 
> is hard left and the other hard right.  When I remove the send 
> it goes back to normal.

You have found a good buglet here.  Basically the 
plugin/insert/send management code does some complicated stuff to 
automatically manage the channel counts within a track/bus. 
You've found a case that the code overlooks.  Arguably sends 
shouldn't affect the number of internal channel streams that 
follow it (like plugins or inserts should).  Please enter the 
excellent description into a bug in the bug tracking page 
(http://ardour.org/mantis).

In the meantime, Mark's workaround idea sounds promising...

jlc