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John Johnson 10
Inspiring
April 2, 2019
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How do I generate a tone in only one channel? And how do I generate separate tones in each channel?

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How do I generate a tone in only one channel, with the other channel being silent? And how do I generate separate tones in each channel?

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    April 2, 2019

    When you generate your original tone, make sure it's a stereo tone you create. Any subsequent tone should be mono. Now, using the channel controls:

    ... you can mute one of them - I've muted the RH channel. This means that any operations you carry out will only happen to the 'live' channel (mute button is ringed in red). So if you copy the second (mono) tone to that channel, it will leave the original alone, and you'll have the second tone on the other channel, so you'll hear both of them when you un-mute. If you just want the other channel silent, it's even easier - mute the one you want to keep, select Effects>Silence and it will knock out the other one completely.

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    John Johnson 10Author
    Inspiring
    April 4, 2019

    I generated the stereo tone. I then muted one channel and tried to generate a mono tone that I could insert into the live channel as you suggested, but Audition would not allow me to do that. So, I am stuck. It won't allow me to generate a mono tone. Very difficult software to use.

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    John Johnson 10Author
    Inspiring
    April 7, 2019

    Here is a video of what you want, working fine. You can see both tones visible in the frequency analysis on the RHS:

    Create two different tones in one stereo file

    Audition doesn't need 'massive changes' to make it user-friendly, but it does require a little effort putting into learning how it works. If it was that bad, several million users in just about every radio station in the world - including a massive number in the BBC - would have complained about that by now, and by and large they haven't. In fact, rather the opposite...

    As for why your stop and play buttons don't work - well, I've never had that happen but it's perfectly possible for the OS to lock you out of everything for short periods of time, especially if you are trying to play back a file at a ridiculously high sample rate that has to be down-converted to something that your audio device can cope with. Try the whole thing again at 44.1k.


    I have a high end sound card that is capable of 384 kHz, 32 bit. I created a stereo tone, which worked fine, then tried to create a mono tone. The mono tone was blank. Notice in the Duration window below, the 7 kHz mono tone is blank. It has no duration.

    Here is the waveform window. It has no content.

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