The send pre/post-fader button determines if track volume affects the overall send volume. I was expecting the same to be true for pan, but it doesn't seem to be, despite what the signal flow diagram indicates in help.
 
For example, if I pan a mono track hard right, it turns up in a bus as stereo unless I also set the send pan hard right, regardless of the pre/post setting. However, track volume does alter the bus signal if the setting is post.
 
Is it intended that the track pan works differently to track volume?
 
Cheers, Peter.

I think what you are looking for is this:
 
Right-click the Send Pan control and choose Follow Track Pan from the pop-up menu. This setting is only active when the send has the same interleave as the bus that the send feeds into, and is set to Post Fader. If enabled, the Send Pan control no longer affects the output.
 
PS: The help text in the link is incorrect. Changing that makes the send pan mirror the track pan settings not the target bus pan..

So the send pan is actually a balance control between a buss and the main output?

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
I think what you are looking for is this:
 
Right-click the Send Pan control and choose Follow Track Pan from the pop-up menu. This setting is only active when the send has the same interleave as the bus that the send feeds into, and is set to Post Fader. If enabled, the Send Pan control no longer affects the output.
 
PS: The help text in the link is incorrect. Changing that makes the send pan mirror the track pan settings not the target bus pan..

I never knew that! That's handy.
 
 

ampfixer
So the send pan is actually a balance control between a buss and the main output?

As I read it, it just tells the signal where to sit within its stereo destination. So for mono, same as track pan for a track feeding into (for example) the master bus.

The option tells the mixer which pan to look at when mixing in the send. When follow track pan is enabled it uses the track pan value, otherwise it uses the discrete send pan value.
If you don't need an independent send pan you should use follow track pan.

Thanks Noel. I had always assumed the Track Pan affected the signal going to a bus. This might explain why I have trouble getting strong stereo images in mixes. Any effects applied using a send will, by default, be centered because I didn't know to change the Send Pan to match the Track Pan.
 
Is there any way to make the default behavior that the Send Pan follows the Track Pan?
 
Cheers, Peter.
 

I continue to learn something new almost daily in this forum :-0
 

PeterMc
Thanks Noel. I had always assumed the Track Pan affected the signal going to a bus. This might explain why I have trouble getting strong stereo images in mixes. Any effects applied using a send will, by default, be centered because I didn't know to change the Send Pan to match the Track Pan.
 
Is there any way to make the default behavior that the Send Pan follows the Track Pan?
 
Cheers, Peter.

 
Yes, Preferences | Configuration File
Edit config file
Find the line LinkSendPan=0
Change it to LinkSendPan=1
Save
Reload Config Settings
OK
 
That should change the default for new projects
 
 

Great - thanks. I was pretty confident there would be a setting to do this.