On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:10 PM, logic-users@yahoogroups.com wrote: > Well you can do this with relative ease in Logic: just bring the > stereo interleaved recording onto 2 new audio tracks, and select the > L output on one, and the R output on the other (at the bottom of the > fader object, where you can also choose mono or stereo, as well as > other formats). > > One thing about Logic: it used to be that an interleaved file played > back with less CPU drain for some reason... not sure it this is still > the same today. > > As for the comment about "not having the freedom to separately effect > each side of a stereo track" I, in over 25 years of recording, might > have done this 4 or 5 times... So I'd suggest that it is an esoteric > requirement. > > Touche! Esoteric or not, they've crippled the program. For no apparent reason. I've used split mode in Logic for 12 years. It's one simple little setting that they removed. Force convert interleaved to split. As it is now, you cannot record split stereo. You cannot import split stereo from the menu. Logic automatically converts to interleaved. So, now I have to go through a couple of extra steps tio convert back to split. It's just stupid. You can however drag and drop split stereo from the finder into the arrange and bin. You can also bounce to split stereo. If you add the file to the bin you can drag it to the arrange. I hate UTM, always have. It has some benefits, sure, but I don't like being forced to use it. Using split mode in L8 is a drag, because it's not consequent. If I'm using split files I don't want deal with interleaved at all.