# Stereo VST appearing as Mono

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/stereo-vst-appearing-as-mono/20887>\
**Category:** Audio Plugins\
**Created:** [February 8, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/stereo-vst-appearing-as-mono/20887 "2017-02-08T23:59:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![fr810](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/fr810/32/841_2.png) [@fr810](https://forum.juce.com/u/fr810)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/stereo-vst-appearing-as-mono/20887/4 "2017-04-04T08:42:13Z")

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I don’t understand: if the plug-in reports mono as it’s default layout then you can either respect that or easily override this yourself. In your host, simply check if the plug-in supports stereo and switch to stereo if it does.

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