lizzyberkman

I'm trying to take a stereo file and combine it into a single mono buffer.

It seems that the Max buffer~ automatically stores two channels of a stereo file and the groove~ object combines them into one channel at the output. Is there any way to have them overlap within the buffer itself?

I'm trying to take a stereo file and combine it into a single mono buffer.
It seems that the Max buffer~ automatically stores two channels of a stereo file and the groove~ object combines them into one channel at the output.  Is there any way to have them overlap within the buffer itself?

strangely-specific-bufferwaveform-request

If you want, you can load only one channel of a stereo file into a 1-channel buffer~, and you can make groove~ read both channels of a stereo buffer~ if you want. (See example below.) I'm not sure quite what you mean by "overlap". Mix the two channels? Interleave them? Show them as two distinct graphs in the same space? If you want to mix two channels into a single channel, you can add them together (and scale them by 0.5 to avoid clipping).

why not just run it with both channels and mix the 2 output signals to mono at whereever they go.

Strangely Specific Buffer/Waveform Request