Handy Orchard

Audio channel mixer

Mix stereo to mono, extract a channel or swap stereo channels while preserving decoded timing.

Your input

Mono uses (L+R)/2. Right and swap require stereo. Opposite-phase signals may cancel.

Outputs are cleared when the input changes.

Result

Enter your data or use the example, then run the tool.

Worked example

The generated stereo example has opposite-phase channels. Averaging them to mono produces silence (within PCM quantization); extracting left retains its tone.

Method

Mono averages two PCM channels sample by sample; left/right copies one channel; swap exchanges channel order. A mono source supports mono/left only. Frame count and decoded sample rate are unchanged before PCM16 WAV quantization.

Limits

One file up to 50 MiB; decoded mono/stereo up to five minutes and 28.8 million samples across channels. Only browser-decodable formats. Decoding may resample; output PCM16 WAV is quantized, not a lossless copy of the compressed stream. Native decode cannot be forcibly interrupted; cancellation ends the wait and cleans resources when possible. Not voice enhancement, karaoke or vocal/instrument separation; opposite-phase content can disappear.

Sources

MDN: audio decoding and resamplingMicrosoft: RIFF/WAVE container

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