[Answered] The pan knob on my busses aren't doing anything (X1) *SOLVED*

Dunno Beep. What have you been up to? Is it a stereo bus? Not that that should matter.

Another weird thing is I wanted to put Perfect Space on the bus to see how it sounded but when I went to load a preset all the folders were empty. I've used PS on tracks and it was fine. Urgh.

I can't even pan the tracks. This bad. They are completely masking the bass.

Could you have inadvertently created an automation somewhere that is locking the pan into position?

Any difference if you bypass all FX bins?    How about if the tracks feeding the bus are switched to mono?

A pan knob at the top of the CV strip?   I'm not in front of SONAR, but I really can't think what that would be..
 

There's a Gain and a Pan knob at the very top of the Console strips. I also see a "Sends" section that is grayed out that has a Level and Pan knob but I can use them probably because the bus is going to the Master.

no, it shouldn't make a difference Beep and all is fine at my end, both X1 and X2

I can't think what is up with your setup today dood

This is making me completely insane. I thought maybe it had something to do with the "Sends" section of the strip even though I can hear the sound from the bus and all the effects I've applied to it. So I clicked the little + sign on that section a selected Master to send to. Well that just made a huge mess of slapback delay BUT the pan knob on that section actually seem to be doing something. Not actually panning hard left or right but there was an audible difference... but completely unusable. So I switch the send to None to get back to where I was (which worked) and tried to disable that section so it's grayed out again. It wouldn't gray out which doesn't matter I guess but yeah... starting to get a little red in the face here. Guess I have dig through all the manuals to see what I'm doing wrong. This project just doesn't want to end.

The effects I'm using are the Sonitus EQ, GR5 and the PC.

Blargh! I just opened up my very first project to try it out and sure enough the mono AND stereo tracks were panning properly. I sent one of each (one mono and one stereo track) to their own stereo busses and they panned correctly from the busses as well. I'm out of ideas and ready to set fire to this project. I can't believe that at THIS stage it's gonna be a washout over something so simple.

I just went to a really early version of the project, turned off the effects so I was just getting the line input of the the guitar and still couldn't get it to pan. What a waste of time. This project is now officially garbage. I am ever so disappointed. It was my first real tune with X1 and I've spent DOZENS of hours screwing with it over the past month.

hey beepster,

did you load in safe mode and try it?  That might indicate a plugin causing the issue

I'll give it a shot, Jimbo. Cheers.

I just tried Safe Mode with no plug ins at all and got the same result. So I tried sending one of the tracks straight to the master instead of the bus and it still wouldn't pan. This is crazy.