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Subject: Stereo Pan Law
Original Message 1/15 25-Dec-02 @ 05:06 PM Edit: 25-Dec-02 | 05:08 PM - Stereo Pan Law
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Cubase SX manual says:
""Stereo Pan Law setting allows you to attenuate signals panned center, by -6 or -3dB (default). Selecting the 0dB option effectively turns off “constant-power panning”.""
I tested it and this is not true. If I pan to the right in mixer view, it decreases volume on the left channel ONLY, the right channel remains at peak. If I mix down a stereo file to mono, then the mono file will be louder where the original stereo one was panned center.
Interesting tho, that if I do this test with a VSTi (i tried with FM7) then the level of the sum of left and right channels is always constant (does not depend on the panning of the original stereo material).
Any ideas if this is wrong / i've overlooked something..?
Message 2/15 25-Dec-02 @ 05:12 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
The SX example is panned center then 50% to the right, then 100% to the right.
The FM7 example is panned center, then 50% left, then 100% left.
Message 3/15 25-Dec-02 @ 07:32 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
Message 4/15 25-Dec-02 @ 07:59 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
I checked Logic, it does the same on a stereo audio channel, I mean like SX... Now I have a feeling that panning concerns only mono channels and balance only stereo ones. I'll have a look.
Message 5/15 25-Dec-02 @ 08:50 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
Message 6/15 25-Dec-02 @ 11:20 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
hey..if youre interested, I scored a plugin that allows you to adjust the pan width on stereo tracks. Can send it to ya if you want
Message 7/15 25-Dec-02 @ 11:45 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
About the panning issue, for mono tracks the panning law applies, for stereo tracks there is no panning law, so if you pan it to the right then the volume of the left channel is reduced, while the volume of the right one does not change.
Message 8/15 13-Jan-03 @ 02:01 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
The reason maybe that Cubase drops things by 6dB to allow for panning, so that if you pan your channel, the mono volume won't change.
Sonar doesnt' do this apparantly.
Anyway ciao.
Message 9/15 13-Jan-03 @ 03:04 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
Logic also does 0db
FM7 as VSTi does -6db
so it does matter if you pan by the mixer itself or use the internal panning control of a VSTi / effect.
Thing is, Cubase can be set-up to 3 different kind of paning "rule": 0, -3, or -6 db but this only affects tracks with mono source on the mixer.
Message 10/15 13-Jan-03 @ 04:30 PM - RE: Stereo Pan Law
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