Hi, does anyone know what was the particular reason behind the choice made to record stereo sources as dual mono files instead of a proper stereo file?
I would assume that it saved the overhead of interleaving when writing and deinterleaving when reading files. Mono files can be directly mmaped.
Also when processing data, it is always a planar format, never interleaved data.
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I mean in the audio folder i have dual mono files, is there any option im missing to make ardour save them as stereo?
You can export the session:
Ardour Menu > Session > Export > Export to audio file… and pick any number of channels.
Internally however Ardour always unconditionally uses single channel files.
I see…
Well thank you, and btw your plugins are amazing 