<p>Thought I'd share something extremely cool (in a nerdy way!) that I just saw while getting this month's multitracks ready for upload. (It's a bumper crop too, you lucky things -- ten new projects for you all to get your teeth into!) This preparation process involves me listening through to each individual track to check that nothing's obviously broken in some way (eg. clipped, silent, inadvertently mixed with another track... I've seen most things!) and to make the filenames/numbers fit roughly with all the other stuff in the library. But another thing I do is try to minimise project filesizes by chopping redundant silences off the ends of tracks and converting any stereo files containing mono audio into mono files. For this latter task I use a vectorscope (Melda's excellent freeware [[$software_Melda_MStereoScope]] plug-in) to confirm whether things are mono or stereo. If you look at at most mixed audio on a vectorscope, you'll typically see a kind of amorphous 'cloud' in the centre of the display, but with separate instrument tracks you occasionally see something rather more entertaining. Well, today I saw the best one ever, courtesy of a synth lead on the latest APZX multitrack. Here's a screenshot:</p>
