Recently I was involved in a live performance. The organizer asked me not to play live keyboard. In order to produce a medley of some pop songs, I need to prepare the arrangement track.
In order to save time, I found some karaoke MV of the songs I will be performing.
The problem with a karaoke MV is that the stereo audio is in fact one channel full mix (with vocal), and the other one is a minus one (the karaoke audio without vocal). When I import the MV into Sonar, the audio is also imported in stereo format. But I only need the mono track without vocal.
The easiest way to split it in Sonar is
- Select the stereo audio file
- From “edit” menu, “bounce to track”
- select “split mono” at “channel format” drop down menu
You will get split mono left right on different track.

Edit menu

Bounce to track menu.
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