Panning in Cubase and Logic Pro 8

Heiko · 30th October 2007

I am familiar with Cubase SX 3 and found it very handy to have separate panning controls for each channel on stereo tracks. So easy to pan stereo tracks hard left / right or wherever.
On Logic Pro 8, I do only see a balance control for stereo tracks. That looks like impossible to do hard left / right panning of a stereo track with it... is there any way to "change the balance control mode"? Or any convenient way of working around that lack?

UnMix Studio · 31st October 2007

Bump. I'll like to that as well. I think that sucks. However, it seems that the direction mixer should allow you to spreader harder or closer. nonetheless, it suck to have to add a plguin just do so.

Switchcraft · 31st October 2007

yeah, use the direction mixer, it is all that plus more and it doesnt really use CPU thta I have noticed, so its not that big of a deal.

Actually, again it is better becuase you can place it in between plugs that create additional stereo effects.

Græmatter Audio · 31st October 2007

I agree, in Logic the Direction Mixer is the way to go - allows you to freely alter the width and position of a stereo signal (with a conventional dual-panner you can obviously narrow the signal but you can't make it wider than it was originally recorded without employing additional M/S matrixing etc.)

I've never had a problem with it being a plug-in pre LP8 as this would also mean that the sends would reflect the stereo positioning post Direction Mixer... now that they've added a post-pan option to the sends in LP8 it would be nice if they gave you the option of replacing the channel pan control with a channel Direction Mixer (like you can now do with the new binaural panner - which is similar, but works by creating artificial HRTF stereo information as opposed to simply working with the stereo information present in the recording... )

Also remember that if you really need separate control over the content of the two channels that you can copy the stereo file to a second track and have the first track play back only the left channel and the second track only the right channel. These options are available by clicking on the little mono/stereo track indicator box underneath the channel meter display.

30th October 2007	#1
Heiko Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Germany Posts: 206 Thread Starter	Panning in Cubase and Logic Pro 8 I am familiar with Cubase SX 3 and found it very handy to have separate panning controls for each channel on stereo tracks. So easy to pan stereo tracks hard left / right or wherever. On Logic Pro 8, I do only see a balance control for stereo tracks. That looks like impossible to do hard left / right panning of a stereo track with it... is there any way to "change the balance control mode"? Or any convenient way of working around that lack?

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31st October 2007	#2
UnMix Studio Gear addict Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: New York Posts: 385	Bump. I'll like to that as well. I think that sucks. However, it seems that the direction mixer should allow you to spreader harder or closer. nonetheless, it suck to have to add a plguin just do so.

31st October 2007	#3
Switchcraft Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,059	yeah, use the direction mixer, it is all that plus more and it doesnt really use CPU thta I have noticed, so its not that big of a deal. Actually, again it is better becuase you can place it in between plugs that create additional stereo effects.

31st October 2007	#4
Græmatter Audio Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 91	I agree, in Logic the Direction Mixer is the way to go - allows you to freely alter the width and position of a stereo signal (with a conventional dual-panner you can obviously narrow the signal but you can't make it wider than it was originally recorded without employing additional M/S matrixing etc.) I've never had a problem with it being a plug-in pre LP8 as this would also mean that the sends would reflect the stereo positioning post Direction Mixer... now that they've added a post-pan option to the sends in LP8 it would be nice if they gave you the option of replacing the channel pan control with a channel Direction Mixer (like you can now do with the new binaural panner - which is similar, but works by creating artificial HRTF stereo information as opposed to simply working with the stereo information present in the recording... ) Also remember that if you really need separate control over the content of the two channels that you can copy the stereo file to a second track and have the first track play back only the left channel and the second track only the right channel. These options are available by clicking on the little mono/stereo track indicator box underneath the channel meter display.