Mono mode

davedraper

Hi Jeff & all
Keeping an eye on all this, whilst trying (very part-time for now!) to implement some of my old trickery in Mob3, I realise I was using 'mono mode' with Mob2. Being a guitar player, I essentially create mono tracks; yes I can chorus/phase/echo them in stereo, but the loop manipulation is primarily done in mono.
I've set up Mob3 in stereo, but it gets overly complex with stereo matrices, routing, wiring, processing for what I'm doing.
Is there a mono mode (or equivalent) for Mob3? It used to be in Track Setup, but I can't find it..........Ahhhh! I think
I just found it in "Parameter Overlays - Ports"!
Now to figure out how it works! 🙂
Dave

jeff

I haven't tested mono mode in a long time, but I'll describe how it is supposed to work.

First, you don't need to use parameter overlays. This is a track parameter you would normally set in the session, assuming you want to leave mono mode turned on for as long as that session is active. From the Edit Session window, click the Tracks tab, click on the track you want to mono, then click on Ports in the parameter tree. There is a checkbox at the bottom of the form labeled Mono.

I forget what that actually does, since ports are stereo pairs, I think it takes the signal from the left input channel, and duplicates whatever Mobius does to the left and right output channels.

How ports are managed is different in Mobius 3 using Juce, I don't think there is a way to define ports that aren't stereo pairs, though you can choose to use only one of them. What you can't do is use adjacent physical input channels from the hardware interface in mono. For example having track 1 receive from hardware channel 1 and track 2 receive from hardware channel 2.

jeff

Looked some more at this...

Mono mode effects just the output side of Mobius. On the input side, it still receives from a stereo pair of channels through the selected port, though only one of those channels need to be connected to a sound source. The guts of Mobius behaves as it would in stereo, it's just that only one channel may have content.

On the output side two things are different. First the two internal stereo channels coming out of the Mobius engine are summed together. If you were only receiving on one input channel, there would be no difference in the sum, but if you were receiving on two channels, they would be merged. This summed content is then sent out to BOTH output channels but can be adjusted with the pan control. Pan works differently here, it does a "true" pan, sending a portion of the summed signal to each of the two outputs.

Even though Mobius always deals with audio as stereo channel pairs, when using the plugin you can choose to just not use one of those. For example, route audio in and out of only the Left pin. What mono mode does differently though is if you had a stereo signal going in, they would be summed and sent out the Left output pin.