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Sep 23, 2026 7:53 PM UTC
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my audition displays stereo tracks as if they were mono

i think i may have misckicked somemething, all of my audio was in streo and half of it turned into mono, i tried going to  Edit > Convert Sample Type, set Channels to Stereo, and click OK. and saved and it still displays them as mono even when they are shown to have a left and right channel in the files panel 

please help, im a bit on a newbie, so i dont understand everything 

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    Sep 23, 2026 9:05 PM UTC

    Hi! It sounds like one channel of your stereo file got disabled — that's easy to do by accident, since Ctrl+Shift+L and Ctrl+Shift+R toggle the left and right channels on and off in the Waveform editor.

     

    Open the file in the Waveform editor (double-click it), then press Ctrl+Shift+B to enable all channels again. The grayed-out channel should come back and the file will display and play in stereo again.

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    Sep 26, 2026 3:27 PM UTC

    Thanks for the follow-up. Since your export sounds fine in stereo, the audio itself is good — this is just how the session is displaying it. One quick isolation test: create a brand-new multitrack session and drop the same file in. If both channels show there, the old session's tracks are the culprit — check that the track headers say "Stereo", not "Mono". Let me know what you see!

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    Sep 24, 2026 12:10 AM UTC

    Good news: I watched your video, and the audio itself is fine — in the Waveform editor (around 0:56 in your recording) the file clearly shows both left and right channels. So this is not a bug and the files are genuinely stereo.

     

    What I can see in your Multitrack session is the real cause: those clips are sitting on mono tracks, and a stereo clip placed on a mono track plays and displays as mono — which matches exactly what you describe (half your audio "turned into mono").

     

    The fix: add stereo tracks to your session via Multitrack > Add Tracks, choose Stereo, then drag the affected clips onto them. You can spot a mono track by its meters (one meter = mono, two = stereo).

     

    Adobe documents the mono/stereo track configurations here:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/audition/desktop/mixing-multitrack-sessions/basic-multitrack-controls.html

     

    Let me know if the waveforms show both channels after moving the clips!

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    Participant
    Sep 24, 2026 6:10 PM UTC

    the issue still persists i have tried everything. think it might be a visual bug or something idk, when i export the audio out of audition itt seems fine 

     

    https://streamable.com/9y1nlq

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    Community Expert
    Sep 23, 2026 9:05 PM UTC

    Hi! It sounds like one channel of your stereo file got disabled — that's easy to do by accident, since Ctrl+Shift+L and Ctrl+Shift+R toggle the left and right channels on and off in the Waveform editor.

     

    Open the file in the Waveform editor (double-click it), then press Ctrl+Shift+B to enable all channels again. The grayed-out channel should come back and the file will display and play in stereo again.

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    Participant
    Sep 23, 2026 9:20 PM UTC

    thanks thats helpful but you can see for your self here, could it be a bug and the audio is fine and in stereo? 

     

    https://streamable.com/nxkxcc

     

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