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Originally Posted by H-Rezz  I mean,it could have pan(like now), Universal pan option which will bring up two independent panners for left and right(values included) and Binaural ......anything to do with width in the stereo field can be left for a plug-in like direction mixer ..... |
If you've got two independent panners, one for each channel instead of a single balance control -- you've
got control of width.
What you don't have (in that case, without the balance control) is control of
individual channel level. That's where a system that treats the left and right channels as though they were two independent mono channels, with a level control
and a panner for each side, fits the bill.
The alternative is a balance control combined with a width control, which would effectively accomplish the same thing in a somewhat more roundabout manner -- and has the odd feature of what you might call
negative width, where the right and left channels are effectively reversed to some extent. This, I believe, is how the current version of Sonar approaches it. It sounds entirely workable once you get used to it, but, frankly, I think the ability to switch between balance and dual mono type approaches is more straightforward.
That said, since there
are plugs that will accomplish this, I figure this is pretty shruggable off...
[BtW, the Moneo plug I think I mentioned above has a pretty unique interface that controls these parameters: it's a box-like area with two sound source icons. If you put them both at the 'front' of the box in the extreme left and right positions, you get full stereo, full volume both channels. If you move one or both toward the center, you get diminshed stereo width (or negative width if you reverse their positions) and if you move one or both 'back,' the volume of that channel diminishes. It takes a second but it's kind of intuitive. In a way.]