Wider pan modulation in Zebra?

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Is it possible to create autopanning from full left to full right? I have an MSEG or LFO modulating the pan in the output mixer (under the "patchbay"). If I set this to 100% and the source is panned center, it goes from center to full right. If I start full left, it pans from left to center. If I start 1/2 way, it pans half left to half right. How do I pan from all the way left to all the way right? Thank you.

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Howard wrote:You're missing that the MSEGs are unipolar. Set pan to an extreme and modulate in the other direction.
Taken from this thread
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=444194
Last edited by ere2learn on Thu Sep 24, 2015 9:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Hmmm, this works just fine over here when the modulation amount is 100%. Try it with the square LFO - it alternates left-right just as it should.

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I just made an init patch, white noise generator. Voice 1 is panned hard left, LFO1 is controlling pan with a square wave. LFO Amp is 100% and mod is 100%. Here's the result. Seems like I need "200%" modulation depth.

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ere2learn, that link just takes me back to this thread. I understand that the modulator is unipolar, that's why I'm starting with panning to the left and modulating it right. But it's not pushing hard enough.

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synthetic88 wrote:
ere2learn, that link just takes me back to this thread.
Fixed it

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Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Pan is full left and modulation is full right.

I prefer to do it with an MSEG for better control. Also the tempo sync seems to work better for longer duty cycles.

BTW I am doing this in ZebraHZ, if that makes any difference.

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Can't think what's going wrong there, synthetic88. I get complete i.e. 100% L-R separation in Z2 or ZHZ, oscillator / noise / mixer or whatever. Double and treble-check the track's panning and audio routing?
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:dog: I see (and can confirm) that problem now, synthetic88 :-).
After realizing that I was using the modulation matrix instead of pan modulation directly in the mixer... duh!

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But it does work with a square LFO in the pan modulation in the mixer... I got perfect separation as well.

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synthetic88 wrote:I just made an init patch, white noise generator. Voice 1 is panned hard left, LFO1 is controlling pan with a square wave. LFO Amp is 100% and mod is 100%. Here's the result. Seems like I need "200%" modulation depth.
As Chapelle said, the problem is that you pan Voice1 to the left. The LFO is bipolar, i.e. it goes from -50% to +50%; so in order to get full range the modulated parameter needs to be at center. I've just tested it: pan at 0, modulated at 100% by a square lfo, results in full left/right separation.

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Sure, but synthetic88 preferred to use an MSEG i.e. a unipolar source (which doesn't work as expected there). Here's a workaround that uses a modulation mixer to convert the MSEG signal to bipolar:

In that mod mixer, Select MSEG1 and MMap4 for inputs 1 and 2, and set Constant to 50.00.
Switch MMap4 to "Map Quantise" with only 2 values. Set them both to minimum i.e. -100.00.

Could have mapped the MSEG with a 127-value ramp instead, and ditched the mod mixer - but I find the above more esthetically pleasing as it creates a simple, constant offset :-).

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