Sharing a stereo track in Mono

Hi -
I just upgraded to 10.0.2. In the previous version of Garageband, I was able to specify that when I wanted to share my track to iTunes, I could have it export in mono. I have to play my track on speakers that aren't reliably set up to support good stereo, so this is a pretty critical function for me.
Is it possible to export the track to mono? I've tried changing the input to Mono on the track, but then I lost the left side of my audio. I want it to play evenly all the time out of both speakers.
Thanks!

If you center pan all the material in your sequence it will be effectively mono. The output is always two tracks at least. You could make the output dual mono and send everything to one track and leave the other track empty, but I don't think you can export just one track of audio. Is there some special reason you only need one track?

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Looking on the forums, all I could find was instructions to bounce the tracks to split stereo, but I need them to form separate tracks within Logic so I can apply a LowPass filter to the problematic left track, then mix them back together as one stereo track later....
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You guys are talking about different things. The OP says he's using an exs24 instrument with a sample that has a noise on one side of the stereo field of a SAMPLE not an audio region recorded into logic. Samples used by the EXS24 are not added to the audio bin, only into the EXS24's RAM. You could pan the instrument track to the side without the noise, and then output the result to a bus track that is set to MONO. That will pan your one sided sampler back to center. You can also bring the sample into logic (using the browser) and then split it as eriksimon suggested, and then create a new EXS24 instrument using only the good side of the sample.

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First, I didn't mean to be rude, hence my preface "I don't mean to be a dick...". I just didn't want to hear the same wrong answer over and over. It doesn't work, try it.
Second, I recorded the track with an SM58 (mono mic)plugged into an M-box FW Solo (mono interface).
The track shows up as stereo but I only get sound from the right. There are 2 level meters (left & right) in the mixer column. One meter shows activity, one meter does not. I must have accidentally had the input set to Channel 1 & 2 (stereo) when it was recorded. Changing it to mono only affects subsequently recorded tracks, not tracks that are already recorded.
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In Waveform view, use Edit/Convert Sample Type and just select mono in that section of the conversion options.
The balancing of levels between the two is best done in Multitrack where you can listen--though, looking at your waveforms, you might find it gets easier if you normalise (Effects/Amplitude and Compression/Normalise) to reduce that loud track down to levels closer to the quiet one before you start.
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Yes, there is a clever way of doing this but I can't bring it to mind at the mo.
However, a slightly less clever but still quick way is as follow:
Make the Output channel mono (right hand of the two channel mixers in the channel strip area)
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Yeah, that's why I'm so confused. Here's how everything is set up:
All of my dialogue and ADR clips are mono, however they have all been placed on stereo tracks. All of my dialogue and ADR tracks are being sent to a Dialogue/ADR Bus (mono). The same with all of my sound effects. Stereo tracks containing mono clips, all being sent to a mono SFX bus. All of my soundtrack/score is being sent to a stereo score bus. The three buses are going to the master stereo out.
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I might've screwed something up, but I originally had all of my mono material set on mono tracks, until I realized later that panning isn't an option with a mono track. (All DAWs I've worked with didn't have this limitation, which is why I set it up that way.) So I created a bunch of stereo tracks, copied/pasted the mono clips into those, then got rid of the mono tracks.
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