Splitting a Stereo Track into Two Mono Tracks

[Oggy]

Hi Chaps

I'm 'very new' to digital recording devices and DAW's. Some of you will have seen me asking stupid questions and doing some really stupid things to try and get a reasonable recording result using a Zoom H4n and GarageBand. I've tried to manipulate the two stereo files that the Zoom H4n produces (In 4 CHN Mode) using hard panning left and right and multiple copies of the stereo tracks to get separation of instruments and vocals in GarageBand; see my last thread:

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=146949"]My Last Thread[/url]

I've found the answer! A company in the US of A called Sound Devices have a 'FREE ' piece of software (Mac or PC) that will take a stereo WAV file and split it into two mono files - you have to register with them to download it, it's not one of these pieces of software that expires in a few days unless you purchase it , it really is FREE.

I downloaded it this afternoon and I've been happily using it on the Zoom produced stereo files to produce mono files that I can load into GarageBand as separate tracks - works a treat. Dead easy to use, even I got to grips with it in a few mins. The link for the site is:

[url="http://www.sounddevices.com/download/waveagent.html"]Sound Devices - Wave Agent Software[/url]

Happy file splitting, I knew I'd find something, just took me a bit longer than I though.

This piece of software does lots of other audio stuff that I don't understand - yet.

Oggy