Panning Options

I don't know what you're talking about.

The panning scheme is the same in X1 as it was in 8.5 - as it was in 8.0 - as it was in 7 - as it was  in 6

You only need to play around with the send pans if you want to, er, pan your send, and I think the option of "Send Follows Track Pan" is still there?

What is it you're trying to do?

Right-click on the aux-send pan slider and select "follow track pan", which links the aux-send pan to the primary pan slider. The aux-send pan slider becomes disabled when this option is turned on.

This method was introduced at SONAR 8, I think. Older versions of SONAR required setting an obscure aud.ini value to do this. 


BTW, I agree with Sylvan's assertion that having separate pans is the way it should be. At least, if you're going to stick with the idea of modelling hardware mixers.

i know exactly what your talking about.
it is all in the sends though.and bit's idea:
"follow tracks pan"
is the way to go.

Ethereal: Yes, panning the bus all the way left would indeed remove the right guitar in your scenario. That's because SONAR's pan control works as a balance control on stereo tracks and busses, like the Balance knob on your stereo. We don't have the luxury of ProTools' dual pan control, but we have something that in some ways is even better: the Channel Tools plugin.

What Harpo is talking about (I think) is using an aux send to an effects bus, such as a reverb send. Sometimes, you want to have the main instrument panned opposite a reverb or delay. This helps to widen the sound as well as to improve clarity on the effected instrument, and may help with carving a hole in the center for vocals. Other times, you want to pan the effect the same way as the instrument.