Mono/Stereo Conversions in Live

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When a mono signal is chosen as an audio track’s input, the track will record mono samples; otherwise, it will record stereo samples.

Signals in the track’s device chain are always stereo, even when the track’s input is mono or when the track plays mono samples.

Mono is turned into stereo simply by using the identical signal for left and right channels. When a track is routed into a mono output, the left and right signals are added together and attenuated by 6 dB to avoid clipping.

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