Select From Only Right Or Left Channel In Sample Editor

As the title says, I’d like to be able to select/copy/cut/paste a section of a sample from only one of the two stereo channels. In Audacity I use this when, lets say, a bassline is much more pronounced in the left channel and I could get a much better clip without the right channel included. Hard panning doesn’t always give the same result in the sample editor.

To really beat a dead horse:

I’d like the option to do this----

Instead of only this—

Separate channel selection has been asked many times here. I could use it to.

plus one. and i want to add the wish for: invert phase.
thanks.

of course that s important… +1