[ardour-users] Manipulating gain envelope on one channel of a stereo track.

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:05 +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
> To keep the speakers perfectly aligned I've joined the two mono tracks
> to one stereotrack. Having both speakers on the same track makes the
> editing a lot easier. The only thing I can't figure out is how to
> manipulate the gain envelope on one channel only. Every here and there
> the expander trick doesn't work  and I get that dreadful echo sound
> for a split second. At these places I'd like to mute one channel only.
> (Also when there's a prolonged silence, both speakers will get muted
> and you notice that the low background noise is missing. This however
> could be fixed by putting some noise on a track of it's own.)
> 
> Is that possible or will I have to split the stereotrack back into two
> separate monotracks, edit out the echos and then mix down? I could of
> course do all the fine tuning before I join the tracks but that would
> be a lot less convenient.
> 
> alex
>