2014/09/29 20:37:34
sharke
Pretty please?
2014/09/29 20:49:03
Splat
Voted.
2014/09/30 19:53:56
Dave Modisette
Yes. Very handy to have.
2014/10/01 10:01:19
Grem
Don't we have that already?
2014/10/01 21:39:31
sharke
Grem
Don't we have that already?




Nope. When you insert a stereo track, Sonar just gives you a single pan pot. All this does is control the balance between the left and right channels, i.e. the relative volume of each. So if you turn it left, you're not panning the whole stereo image left, you're just attenuating the right channel (and removing it entirely if the pot is turned all the way left) - and vice versa. By stereo pan pots, I mean a separate pan pot for the left and right channels. Pro Tools has this:
 

 
With stereo pots like this, you can pan the left and right channel individually. And thus you can not only pan the stereo image properly, but you can also control its width and even reverse the image if you like. Of course you can do this with Channel Tools, but we shouldn't have to load a plugin for something so basic - and personally, I've suffered from stability issues with Channel Tools at times (it's still 32-bit). 
2014/10/01 21:44:17
Splat
I would quite like the way NI massive does it. It would only require one pot that way (more room) cheers.

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2014/10/01 21:44:51
scook
sharke
I've suffered from stability issues with Channel Tools at times (it's still 32-bit). 


There is no reason to use the 32bit version of Channel Tools in 64bit SONAR. A 64bit VST version of Channel Tools is bundled with SONAR.
2014/10/01 23:55:57
Grem
Sharke IIRC there was a lot of talk/debate back in the day (all the way to PA9) about this very subject for the reasons you just stated. For some reason, it was never put in to any version of Sonar that I know of. And along came Channel tools.

I use CT on almost all channels when mixing. It is not a bad tool at all.

I know this should be included. It seems so simple to us. But for some reason CW has never done it.
2014/10/02 09:21:18
stevec
I've be good with changing the Left/Right faders from Channel Tools into knobs and incorporating that into the track/console strip...   Maybe with the option of displaying that or the traditional single Pan knob.
2014/10/02 09:37:19
Grem
What do you mean Steve? Did you get the knobs from.CT on the Console stip?
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