[Solved] Vocal will not pan

Often panning  issues have to do with track routing and how you have your master bus outputs assigned. Make sure that your master output is sent to stereo hardware outputs on your sound card that are panned L\R and that your vocal track output is assigned to that master bus.

Good suggestions, tried them all, still no pan function.  What I can't understand is why i can see two distinct volume meter bars in my vocal track and when I move the pan dial left and right, visually the right bar or left bar is visible indicating the sound has been panned to the left or right, but there is no difference in the sound and it still comes out of both speakers.  Any other thoughts what may be causing this ?

So what kind of mic you used. Sounds like your vocals is on 2 separate tracks.
Try setting up a new Test Project. Just one audio track feeding a master bus......
 

squonk2
Chuck:  There is FX on the track, but have turned it off and tested and no change.  The vocal track is being sent to a bus, but it's a stereo bus.
 
Simple:  Using a Berringer powered studio mics.  I have several tracks of vocals, but each is on it's own single track.  
But good idea to set up a new test project w just one audio track feeding a master bus to see if that will pan, will try that.
 

its got to be your routing to the bus or a stereo effect bleeding data through one or both sides.
drag the audio to a new track feed to the master/no bus.
this will help you eliminate the offender.

squonk2
Good suggestions, tried them all, still no pan function.  What I can't understand is why i can see two distinct volume meter bars in my vocal track and when I move the pan dial left and right, visually the right bar or left bar is visible indicating the sound has been panned to the left or right, but there is no difference in the sound and it still comes out of both speakers.  Any other thoughts what may be causing this ?

Follow this process through.
You say your track meters respond to whatever panning you set. Is this also visible in your busses and your Main Outs?

OK - so - when you pan your track left - the right meter is empty on the master?  What about the output beyond the master?  It should be in the console view all the way to the right.  If you open console view and press "F" it will "Fit" it into view.  If all is well the output meters here should be identical to the master

Sorry guys..Im most likely the least qualified guy here but at a guess...could the problem be starting with the input settings of the track.  For example, I use an M Audio interface.  Its a small device with just two inputs.  When I add a new audio track my Sonar defaults the track to stereo input.  If i have my mic plugged into the left port on the M Audio for example i have to change the input in the Inspector to left input.    Could the issue be something along these lines?  Mic plugged into a port but the Inspector view is set to stereo input?   Sorry if Im way off base.  Just throwing in my 2 cents. 

If your Main Outs (Interface) meters are responding correctly to your track panning but you're still getting the signal in both speakers then this surely points to a problem within your monitoring chain so you need to check your interface settings.
Sounds like there is a mono button somewhere which is engaged.
 
Are you connecting to your monitors via a mixing desk? If so this adds another level of complexity which needs to be investigated.

First of all, thanks everyone for great questions and ideas.  The mystery continues... I've been checking through my sound board and monitor stream per the various comments to try to identify something in the sound chain.  Have not solved things, but I have made a couple of observations that may be relevant.  I am using a Presonus Firestudio Project as my Audio Interface.  When I open the control board for the Pre Sonus and I pan any of the channels I can both see and hear distinct right and left panning. I also noticed that any one particular track in Sonar is sending sound through multiple tracks on the pre sonus control board.  Maybe that's normal, my understanding of sound routing is obviously poor.  In Sonar I am only using two main outs, one monitoring the vocal only and the other monitoring the rest of the tracks, nothing looks out of the ordinary here.  I also inserted a new stero track as a test and routed through a new clean bus and it shows left and right panning visually but no audio diff.  In face all the tracks in my project show the same symptom - can see panning visually in the meters, but no panning diff heard int he sound.  Hopefully some of this info stimulates an idea out there.  Included screen caps below as perhaps they will help.
 

 

 
 
 

I have to say that seems really strange that the Firestudio's default settings would do this though no ?
unless maybe you made some adjustments to it previously.  at any rate, maybe you guys are on to something and I don't want to take  a way from that, just wanted to mention it seems odd.
 
 
by the way, what plug in is on that Vox track ?

Eureka !  It was the Pre-Sonus.  Stereo pair chan 11 & 12 and problem solved.  What a diff in overall sound also, much fuller.
 
This forum is fantastic.  The knowledge and effort of the community is really phenominal.
 
Thanks and cheers to all.

Bristol_Jonesey
Hopefully this thread has been of use to other people as far as diagnosing a problem and thinking logically about how to solve it.
 
As soon as you revealed your main out meters were responding correctly you could completely eliminate Sonar and that the problem was outside and "downstream"
 
The next stage would have been your actual monitoring chain

True. If there's some fundamental, basic issue that no one else can confirm, the problem is almost certainly not with SONAR. If it wasn't possible to pan a mono track in the stereo field with SONAR, this forum would be filled with very upset people