Panning is something that was a bit of an afterthought for me for a long time, and that I recently started paying more attention to. Using Ableton 10, so this isn't about the difference between mono and stereo pan (I think).
Earlier I was putting some drums in drum rack, and I tried to use the midi pan envelope to make a fill jump back and forth, and I realized it didn't really work. Either the effect was very subtle, or not there at all. Maybe drum rack doesn't respond to that data. (But then what is the use for it all?)
So next I tried automating the pan in utility. And this worked a bit better, but I realized that even though I was automating it from hard-left to hard-right, there was still a relative balance of signal coming through each channel.
So then I just duplicated that utility out 5 or so times, and voila, this made the sound actually jump back and forth like I wanted.
So I guess I guess a workaround is to make a rack with a bunch of utilities and map the pans to a macro, but I'm still curious, what gives? Is there some wisdom to why Ableton made it this way that I'm not aware of? Is there any technique to actually have control over panning without using the same plugin 5-10 times in serial, which seems like an odd thing to have to do?
Thanks
Submitted March 29, 2018 at 05:54PM by Dangerous_Lynx https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/884ut7/confused_about_how_panning_actually_works_in/?utm_source=ifttt