can I control the pan of my recordings while recording? seems like I cant but I might be doing something wrong.
 

Audio tracks are either recorded as Mono or Stereo tracks.  For monitoring purposes, you can adjust the pan however you like.  As for recording the actual pan setting, depending on your Interface you could probably adjust the percentage of sound going into the L and R channels of a stereo track.  Don't really know why you'd want to though.

Panning is generally something you address AFTER recording.
 
Panning refers to the amount of signal sent to the left and right channels of a stereo MIX. The only time panning comes into play while tracking is when you're using two microphones to record a stereo track, but even then the panoramic balance is usually handled by physical microphone placement and how the instruments or vocalists are arranged in the room.
 
If you're recording a mono track, then "pan" has no meaning. A mono track is neither left nor right. Only afterward, when you subsequently mix that track with other tracks into a stereo bus does panning come into play.

If you're monitoring your recordings back through SONAR, you'll hear the your tracks (including the ones you are recording) panned according to the positions of the pan controls in the console view or in the track view. So in that sense yes, you can "control the pan of [your] recordings." But the pan settings are not recorded. As bitflipper says, you adjust those settings as you mix.

im wondering why you would want to do this vs automating it after ?

I have re-installed my Sonar Studio 8.5 on my new Dell with Windows 10.  Now when I try to pan left or right the bar jumps completely to 100% either way and it is a bear to get it back to 0.  Any ideas how to fix this?

Will 8.5 run ok under Win 10?

Bristol_Jonesey
Will 8.5 run ok under Win 10?

thinking of going back to 8.5 are we ?
not sure how I would survive using 8.5. I've been so spoiled with platinum.
 
good question though. I didn't think 8.5 would run on Windows 10
 

1goodpiper
I have re-installed my Sonar Studio 8.5 on my new Dell with Windows 10.  Now when I try to pan left or right the bar jumps completely to 100% either way and it is a bear to get it back to 0.  Any ideas how to fix this?

 
Do you have a control surface ?

chuckebaby

Bristol_Jonesey
Will 8.5 run ok under Win 10?

thinking of going back to 8.5 are we ?
not sure how I would survive using 8.5. I've been so spoiled with platinum.
 
good question though. I didn't think 8.5 would run on Windows 10
 

1goodpiper
I have re-installed my Sonar Studio 8.5 on my new Dell with Windows 10.  Now when I try to pan left or right the bar jumps completely to 100% either way and it is a bear to get it back to 0.  Any ideas how to fix this?

welcome to screen clutter hell.......
 
No thanks, perfectly happy with SPLAT
 

1goodpiper
I have re-installed my Sonar Studio 8.5 on my new Dell with Windows 10.  Now when I try to pan left or right the bar jumps completely to 100% either way and it is a bear to get it back to 0.  Any ideas how to fix this?

One big problem with reverting back to 8.5 is questions like this are going be difficult to answer because most of us don't have Sonar 8.5 on our system. I don't. 
 
For me it has nothing to offer considering Sonar Platinum is so much better. One huge area is multicore support in Platinum. Its been optimized to the point that projects that were pushing the CPU to its limits no longer do so.
 
I could list all the improvements and features in Sonar Platinum but it would take way too long.  To me Sonar 8.5 is to Platinum what Sonar 1 is to 8.5. Its completely obsolete.