Creating Multi-Tracks from separate recordings

Michael-Badley wrote on 2/25/2019, 11:37 AM

I am fairly new to this - but have one vexing problem. I have a H4N recorder that has separate stereo inputs for the on-board mics and a pair of separate mics that are positioned for soloists. The files are recorded a 'pair' of stereo files with L/R channels. I import the 2 files into SoundForge 13 and they are treated as 2 separate sound files - I want to merge these into one single 4-Track file to edit - not 'mix' them together. How is this done?

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rraud wrote on 2/26/2019, 10:39 AM

I do not think the H4n has the ability to create multi-channel 'poly' files, so the two stereo pair files, must be combined in post to make a multi-channel file.

I am not sure about Audio Studio (AS), but with SF Pro, you could open the two stereo pairs as two separate files (for instance, one file would be 'front'. the second file, 'rear') Then create a new 4 channel (quad or 5:1) file with the same sample rate and bit depth as the originals, Copy the 'front' stereo pair and paste it into the new file's channels 1&2, then copy paste the other file's audio to channels 3&4. BTW, you could also forego opening and copying the two stereo pair files, and just drag the file into the desired channels one file at a time (quick and easy).

As I stated, I'm not sure about AS-13, but In SF Pro, you can create a mono, stereo 2:1, 5:1 or 7:1 (up to 32 channels), I assume it's similar in AS-13 since it supports at least 5:1 (6 channels)

Michael-Badley wrote on 2/26/2019, 3:11 PM

That is exactly what I did, and is just what I was looking for. The ‘help’ function within the program doesn’t help much in this regard. Anyway, now I can work with the ‘pair’ of stereo files as a multi-track. Thank you!