For anyone who started a plugin and never shipped it — where did it actually die?

[Zeisner]

I didn't have the time (to learn to write efficient code) nor the money (to hire an experienced programmer) to break the FlowStone prototype barrier. It's not a big deal though because the majority of those plugins belong inside the unholy plugin triangle (Missing link/a plugin to rule them all/technical case study). I would have had a userbase of maybe three people at best. Or do you want a (optionally mono-compatible) panner with adjustable ILD:ITD ratio, with both ILD and ITD matching to maintain the perceived pan position regardless of the chosen ratio, switchable to balance or stereo rotation mode? Of course not.

[NAD]

Or do you want a (optionally mono-compatible) panner with adjustable ILD:ITD ratio, with both ILD and ITD matching to maintain the perceived pan position regardless of the chosen ratio, switchable to balance or stereo rotation mode?

That sounds similar to Goodhertz Panpot. How could you make it mono-compatible though?

[Zeisner]

That sounds similar to Goodhertz Panpot.

There's a lot of "Haas pan" plugins (Yikes!) out there but I'm not aware of a single one where ILD and ITD are linked to maintain the perceived pan position (yet one where ILD and ITD values even refer to a specific pan position), you always have to adjust ILD and ITD seperately. I wanted a simple pan knob and a ratio knob so I could quickly dial in "Where" and "How real" to get the job done in three seconds. This was the main reason for me to cobble this panner together. I was tired of always having to create additional automation knobs and having to put in the ILD and ITD equations to control the linked plugins.

How could you make it mono-compatible though?

I essentially exploit the way our ears work by using inaudible (As long as you don't listen to L or R only or get very close to a speaker) interaural comb filtering which suppresses the post-mono-merge comb filtering. It's not the most audiophile solution but it has the benefit of simplicity (=low CPU) and it's latency-free. It also seems to confuse AI, thanks to AI expecting ILD-based stereo fields.