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If you're having phase issues with mid/side you're doing it very wrong. The microphones should be about as close together as is possible.

Hi and welcome to the forums. Pretty much any home recording software will do this. The recorded files will be wav, or some other lossless format. Conversion to mp3 would be at the export stage so just ensure you select .wav as your format when exporting. (y)

I think, although welcome correction, pan law governs how loud audio is the farther away from centre it is panned. Ordinarily if you panned slowly something from centre to one side it would seem to get quieter. I believe you can set custom pan law to compensate for that. Regardless, as you say...

It seems I was right, but not quite right. The problem wasn't your choice of setting for the master track output - It was the fact that width was set to zero. Changing the setting exposed the width control, allowing you to turn it up and solve the issue, but you can switch back now (to Stereo...

Ok, I flicked back to default theme. Right click on the pan knob at the top of your master track. Change pan mode to Dual Pan. Ensure the sliders are dragged hard left and hard right (they should be already) Alternatively you can set pan mode to Stereo Pan then increased the (newly revealed)...

You've got everything going through a master track/bus, with centre panning. I have a ProTools skin on Reaper so I don't know if the layout will be the same for you, but your master should be panned hard left for left and hard right for right.

Glad you found a workaround. Thanks for the update. It's a shame you couldn't nail down the problem for closure - Seems pretty clear there's unwanted summing going on somewhere , as you say. Ah well, at least you can get back to work. (y)

Reluctant to wake Dave up but I think FM stereo is transmitted as mid/side. It's such a great technique for a few reasons. Of course it's very easy to adjust the perceived width but you don't have the concern of distances between microphones or between each microphone and any given source, so...

I think I get where you were coming from - You don't have discrete left and right channels, but all of the same information is still there. It's just stored differently, as sum and difference - I.E. information that's common to left and right on one track, and information that is not stored on...

It's true stereo. There's no trickery or fac simile involved - It's stereo.

That's what it is. That's the foundation of mid-side. The lower your centre mic (or higher the sides) the less natural it will sound. If the centre mic is brought right down to the point where it's barely contributing, you're literally just hearing opposite polarity signals in each ear.

Hi, I tested out your wav files and everything works as it should. I do notice that when you're at the left hand side (face of the Cad mic) you're nowhere near as strong sounding as when you're at the right/back. That could just be that you were closer to the mic when you did your right...

The .kext file will be included in the installer. Just download it then right-click the .pkg and choose "Show Package Contents" Navigate through that and you should find the kext, probably in a /system/library/extensions structure. From memory you'll need to put the kext where it goes (/S/L/E)...

The drivers are still available from Alesis but it looks like the last officially supported MacOS version was 10.8 Mountain Lion. (V3.5.6) Alesis downloads link.

The best advice I can give is to watch a video tutorial on compression for some plugin that has a visual representation. Avid Dyn3 has got it. I think some of the waves plugins like C1 do it too. You see a diagonal line representing your compressor's impact on the sound and, in real time, you...

Ok. This ^ is the important question then.

I don't think I can really give you a straight answer, I'm afraid. Rolling back to an early version of MacOS is free but can be a bit of an upheaval if you're not familiar with the process. Upgrading to a newer version of Protools is probably quite costly, unless you happen to have an active...

Hi, I also have a Focusrite Scarlet interface. I set it as my playback device for all audio and systems sounds, and my speakers and headphones are connected it. That way any and all sound coming from the computer goes through monitors and headphones. Is that not working for you?

Hi, 2022.12.0 isn't marked as compatible with Sonoma, so you'll want to either roll back MacOS to Monterey/Ventura, or upgrade Pro Tools to 2024.3.

There's a number of ways you can go but if backing up is the goal then decide if network access is important, because that determines whether or not you need to dedicate a whole computer to it. If network access is important then do what GainBrain said. Won't be the fastest solution in the...