Stereo panning question (nubie)

[rgonzale]

I have a mono clip. I understand that all Tracktion tracks are stereo. I am using a chorus VST plugin which has stereo outputs. The resulting (stereo) image is too wide. In most sequencers I would simply pan L a little left of center and R a little right of center rather than hard-panning them, to limit the width of the stereo image on this track.

With Tracktion I can't do this -- I can only pan the overall signal.

Is the correct solution perhaps to route the track's output to two additional tracks, select L on one track and R on the other, and pan them as desired before sending their signals to the default audio output? Seems a bit cumbersome...

Thanks for any help!

[djsubject]

dose any body know of a channel vst with balance insted of pan?

i should be able to make one tonight when i get home if there is not 1 out there all ready!


Subz

[IIRs]

you could always just stick two vol / pan filters in a rack..

[djsubject]

you could always just stick two vol / pan filters in a rack..

of course

might still knock up a balance plugin (not that i have ever found the need for it, the stereo pan thing all ways works fine for me

but having said that 1 of my artists had a track thay did in bobby digital studios in JA, & the left channel was the music & the right was vox!

if i was using T back then it would have been ok but i had to seperate it to 2 mono files in sound forge 4.0

Subz

[rgonzale]

I'm surprised the built-in Vol/Pan filter doesn't offer separate L/R pans as an option for handling stereo sources. This is much more flexible than a single balance control. Does T2 do this?

For example, in my song I want to automate the pans so that this track starts out with a narrow center image and near the end of the song it broadens out to have a wide (hard-panned stereo) image. Another application (which I think I've heard on Brian Wilson's Smile) is to create a fairly narrow image of a stereo-reverb-drenched vocal. This helps it stand out in the mix without muddying up the other elements.

I guess I'll have to create my first Rack tonight, or else as djsubject suggested knock something up in Sythedit...

Thanks for the replies!

[darcyb62]

I think Betabugs Moneo might do what you want...

[valley]

For example, in my song I want to automate the pans so that this track starts out with a narrow center image and near the end of the song it broadens out to have a wide (hard-panned stereo) image.

Stereo is always hard panned.

If you are trying to mix and merge your stereo channels you can knock something together in a rack easily enough. Alternatively you can just split the audio across two tracks such that each track contains a single stereo channel. The pans will then allow you to shuffle the stereo image around completely freely.

[Crossinger]

And here (for the 1001st time) we have:

http://pw1.netcom.com/~jhewes/StereoPan.html

[semiquaver]

I think that T should not build in any functionality that can be easily achieved with racks - that the building blocks for racks should remain as primitive as possible. That said maybe a little library of useful racks could be included with T - we might even store a collection in a sticky?

My initial nominees: dual panner, m-s decoder.

[multree]

or just use Moneo.....

[rgonzale]

OK I easily built a StereoPan rack using two vol/pan filters, one wired to the L input and the other wired to the R input. At first I couldn't figure out how to apply automation to these two filters, then I realized you just drag the A icon onto each filter in turn. Sweet!