I have Sonar X1 Studio and I’m trying to use the “pan” feature (recording newbie). I am on one recorded track of a song, and when I move the pan knob left or right, all it does is decrease the volume of both speakers equally. I have max volume with zero panning. Moving the knob does not change any left/right volume. Any help is appreciated!! Thank you.

Some idea of what soundcard you are using would help.

Wookiee


Some idea of what soundcard you are using would help.

Sound card is in the interface? I am using a Focusrite Saffire Pro40 interface and a Dell laptop.

in preferences/audio/driver settings try setting your pan law to 0db center, balance control and see if that helps.
is it a midi track, a stereo audio track or a mono audio track???

muzeek

Wookiee


Some idea of what soundcard you are using would help.

Sound card is in the interface? I am using a Focusrite Saffire Pro40 interface and a Dell laptop.

Check that in the sound card control software that your output busses are hard panned left and right.  The default PAN law in SONAR causes a -3db drop when panning left or right.  If your cards outputs are not panned left and right what you will hear is a 3db drop across the board.
 
Hope that helps.  PS I use a Focusrite Saffire Pro 26/ i/o

Most likely cause is that the "Interleave" button on the track is set to MONO...

it looks like a bunch of vertical lines that gets smaller in the center ...on the 
track you are trying to pan.

That should solve your problem.

Cheers!

I bet you recorded a MONO Signal onto a STEREO Track. This is the  most popular rookie mistakes in recording. You need to record a mono signal in a mono track not a stereo track muzeek.

Go to the drop down arrow box for the input section in sonar's track section on select a mono input. Then your problems will be solved

CJ

Another place to look is to check your Saffire 'Mix Control' software is set up for stereo output.

I really appreciate the above ideas (comments to follow). I know some of them have to be on the right track. So far I have not had any luck, but it is more my lack of knowledge than anything else. Here is what I have done or found out:
 
Swamptooth – I found driver settings and made the change – same result. This is not midi, but I’m not sure about the track being mono or stereo. Is it just a matter of the Interleave button?
 
Wookie – All I know about that Focusright interface is that my setting are all “Mix1 (L)” or “Mix1 (R)” and not “Mix9 (mono)” for example.
 
Cclarry – I didn’t get any difference trying to pan with Interleave on or off.
 
CJ – I think I am doing mono to mono. My inputs are “1/2 Left” etc. (not stereo).
 
Petec – I think I am doing stereo output; not mono (see wookie above).
 
I will keep trying. Maybe they have a tech line I can call while I am in my system.

How are your speakers connected? Did you try it with headphones connected to the audio interface?