DSP mono/stereo-confusion for effects on busses

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I am mono/stereo-confused regarding the 8 busses the DSP mixer.
I’ve looked in the manual, so there must be some lack of understanding for my part.

Point 4 below is where I am lost. Hope someone can help me out?

  1. Load a mono sample on “Track A1”
  2. Set “Track A1” output to “1” (DSP Bus 1)
  3. Load a stereo effect (e.g. a reverb) on “DSP Bus 1”
  4. The reverb now plays in stereo. Not unexpected, as it is a stereo effect. But, it doesn’t change anything, when I switch between “Mono” or “Stereo” for the “Mix”-parameter under the “DSP Bus 1 Settings”. I would think, that when switching to “Mono”, the channel and thereby the stereo-image would maybe collide to mono. But it remains stereo no matter which settings I try.

Also, if this is how it is supposed to act, are there a way, to get a bus with a stereo effect, to play in mono?

(I can of course look if there exist a plug which can make stereo to mono to put after, but would like to see, if it’s possible without.)

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Sorry, I’m not answering your question but you helped me answer mine sort of.
I was sending some mono tracks to a stereo bus and couldn’t work out how to pan them. They just sat in the left. But then I made the bus mono, and that centred them, and like you said, you can use stereo fx on the mono bus.

If someone can point us to better understand all this would be grateful.

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Not really, if you have some knowledge of mixers.

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As I’ve found an answer to my last request in my first post, I thought I’d share it, in case it can be useful to others.

Plug-in from the link below can collapse the stereo output to mono (as well as doing some other things).

I have installed it and tested it and it works.