In most cases, the 16 stereo outputs that are available in Superior Drummer and EZdrummer will work perfectly in your DAW if you want to apply your own effects after the mixer in our plug-ins.
We do, however, understand that it may be desirable to be able to split the stereo channels into dual mono or to be able to get instruments that are typically recorded in mono on a mono channel in your DAW.
There is an option to enable mono outputs in the Settings > Advanced tab in our plug-ins, but this option only works in Nuendo and Cubase.
For other hosts, you are going to have to manually configure your routing to separate the stereo outputs into mono signals.
The basic idea is that you configure the mixer in our plug-ins so that the two signals that you want to have in mono in your DAW are panned hard left or hard right on one stereo output, and then split the stereo outputs in your DAW so that you get two mono channels per stereo output in the plug-in.
For example, if you want your kick and snare on two separate mono channels, you can send them to their own output channel in the plug-in, panned like this. For demonstration purposes, we have chosen output channel 3/4.
Then, depending on the DAW that you’re using, you may be able to select channel 3 and channel 4 as separate mono-channel inputs to two mono bus channels or mono audio tracks. Done!
Some hosts do not let you use channel 3 and channel 4 individually as inputs on a mono track or bus, they can only be used as a stereo group. One example is Studio One, click the button below to see more info. Please contact support with the button at the bottom of this FAQ if we need to add your host to the list.
Enable the S3/4 channel in the Instrument section to the left of the Studio One Console.
Add two stereo bus sends from that channel. We named ours “Kick Stereo” and “Snare Stereo”.
After adding the bus sends, configure them so that they are pre-fader sends and toggle off “Lock Pan to Channel”. Configuring the send to be pre-fader can be done in a drop-down menu in Studio One 6, but in Studio One 5 you need to use the small button to the right of the send level indicator.
Then pan one send hard left, and the other hard right. Turn the fader for the S3/4 channel all the way down.
Then make the stereo buses you just created mono instead. You can do that by clicking the stereo/mono toggle button located above the fader on the bus channel strip.
It is important in some versions of Studio One, for example Studio One 5, that the buses are stereo initially to be able to pan the sends.
The final setup looks like this.
