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1,000%. Every time I have a question about something at work, for instance, I'll always root around for a solution for ages, and the **MOMENT** I ask somebody for the solution, I stumble upon it before they even respond and then promptly feel like an idiot. This one, however, was magic-in and magic-out. What caused the problem? Magic. What solved it? Magic. 😂

I went to do that after quitting out of Logic, and when I opened the project back up it was already fixed. I had quit out and reopened the project file tons of times since the problem began. What changed? Who the hell knows. God I need a new computer. Anyhow, thanks for the help, @polanoid and @des99. Looks like this one is simply chalked up to gremlins.

Wtffffffffff Other project files open just fine. It's only this one project that's f*ed up, so it doesn't seem like it could be a Logic-wide settings issue on my iMac. There's no reason this would work, but there's also no reason I should be having this problem. Can you save the project file as a copy, rename it, and send it back to me?

10.4.5. I'm pretty damned out of date because I'm locked to an old OS because of plugins. Super delightful.

What you're looking at is what I'd expect to see after solving the surround problem, but for me, the stereo out remains inaccessible in that I don't have the option of adding plugins to it:

Wait, why can you see the plugins on my stereo out and I can't?

Cheers! The project file can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_LmpdCJWKflJ0fFJVJX_ilNauB-q1ZyM/view?usp=drive_link

I haven't shared a project in that manner before. Do you mean to upload the Logic file where it's accessible without including the audio files folder?

I've got a stereo project that I used a couple of surround samples in. I know that when you add these samples to a stereo project, your master out is switched to surround, and thus you lose all your stereo plugins on the main stereo out strip. I've done this many times and fixed the problem many times by changing the new surround outputs back to stereo, at which point all the stereo plugins on the stereo out strip normally reappear. I know how to change the output on a track between mono, stereo, and surround. I know how to change the input on a track. I know how to see from the look of the panning wheel what tracks are in mono (or balance) mode, which are in stereo, and which are in surround. Believe me when I say that there are no tracks currently set to surround. I have gone through everything on my transport a hundred goddamned times. I've shown hidden tracks in case there were hidden surround tracks (there aren't). I have deleted the original offending surround samples from the project after bouncing them in place as stereo tracks. I have also deleted the surround samples from the bin, so the project file shouldn't even have any notion of those tracks left in it. Nothing has fixed it, and I feel like I'm losing my mind. All of the help requests I've seen on the topic are issues I know how to solve by the above steps– I can't find anybody who's done all that and STILL can't un-f*%@ the problem. Any help here would be enormously appreciated.

This was helpful. Thank you so much, internet stranger who owes me nothing– I really appreciate it!

I want to separate them for phase correction and for the simplicity of my workflow should I want to automate the tracks separately. I know that one can go dual mono and automate the L and R channels there, but I find it more confusing and unwieldy than automation already often is. If I were to face this issue often I would adapt to a new system. As of now, this is the first time I've ever seen it happen, and adapting to a one-time event rather than making it adapt to me will cost me more time in the end.

So, this is weird and I can't find any posts anywhere online about it. I'm working with a drummer who records in ProTools. In his newest batch of takes, whenever I import (either through File > Import or by drag-and-drop) one of his mono OH (overhead) tracks, Logic automatically pulls in the other and creates a stereo track of them. Not only that, but it also creates a brand new stereo track in the folder from which I'm importing the tracks. So, what happens is, I have a file folder that contains the drum tracks, including mono wav tracks "OVERHEADS L" and "OVERHEADS R." Upon importing OVERHEADS L into Logic, Logic then creates the stereo track and a new wav file called "OVERHEADS" appears in the file folder. I'm guessing what's happened is that the tracks are somehow linked in ProTools in a way that Logic can read, but I'm not familiar with ProTools, so I'm not sure. I want these tracks in my DAW in mono and cannot figure out how to import them without it turning into a stereo track. The only workaround I can think of here is balance-panning the track hard L, bouncing mono, hard R, bouncing mono. I'm not 100% confident that will give me a clean mono signal of just the mono mic line I want, though, without any other processing or bullshit getting in the way. Anybody got any ideas?

Holy hell, you're my goddamned hero. I was certain it would be something easy, and I wasn't disappointed. You just saved me literal hours and hours of workflow fuckery. Do you have a band with a record out that I can support as thanks?

Hello! My bandmate and I live far away, so he records his parts and sends them to me so I can work them into our recorded material. For some damned reason, his MIDI tracks absolutely NEVER work on my end if I want to re-voice them by switching to a different synth plugin. Often, what I'll do is create another new software instrument track and copy/drag his MIDI onto it to try some new synth voices for the parts. However, I can't remember the last time this actually worked. I always wind up having to replay his parts whenever I do this because his parts simply WILL NOT trigger any sounds in this situation if I change to a different synth. If I keep working with the same synth plugin, everything's fine. I've searched high and low online, but can't seem to find anybody else experiencing this same issue. Anybody have any ideas?

Thank you both for your responses. The more you know!