When I pan left, the volume is turned down instead of being panned left???

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When I pan left, the volume is turned down instead of being panned left???

When I pan left, the volume is turned down instead of being panned left???

The instrument strip and output 1-2 are both in stereo in my environment. I don't get it-any ideas anyone?

I'm using logic 7.2.3

Thanx in advance
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iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Posted on Jan 19, 2008 2:24 PM

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Paul W0ng Author

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Jan 25, 2008 2:53 PM in response to AustinLogic

Thanks for your response.

hrmmm..... I don't see any "Pan Law". I'm running Logic 7.2.3 btw.

I think it might be my audio drivers.

"I have a FW 410 interface, everything seems to work fine except for the panning. Instead of panning properly, the volume is turned down when I pan left and volume is raised when I pan right. This only happens when I have the FW 410 interface selected in the audio/hardware setup. Panning under the built-in audio works fine so I would imagine it's the M-Audio drivers for the FW 410 that need a working update for Leopard."

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanx again in advance,

Paul

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blayzay

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Jan 22, 2008 8:31 PM in response to Paul W0ng

Go to Control Surface then press Setup!

So here goes,

go to Logic-Pro at the top Left of your Monitor, then scroll to Preference then to Control-Surface,

Then Setup.

Now Select Flip mode setting it to off, have fun Paul WOng.

Fr.BlayZay.

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Paul W0ng Author

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Jan 25, 2008 2:06 PM in response to blayzay

Hey dude,

Thanks for responding. I tried your suggestion and checked out the "flip mode". When I went to the control surface setup, the flip mode was already set to "off".

Please help, I need this fixed by tomorrow!

Thanx again in advance,

Paul

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Answer 4

Jan 25, 2008 2:40 PM in response to Paul W0ng

Check in Settings->Audio (it should be in the top toolbar if you haven't changed anything yet).

"Pan Law" is what you are looking for. As far as I understand it 0 is the setting you have right now. -3 takes the signal and drops it 3db when you pan. -3 db compensated pans the signal but keeps the same level.

I may not have all the terminology right so if someone else reads this please correct me. But yeah, that's probably where you are running into a problem.

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Bee Jay

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Jan 25, 2008 3:17 PM in response to Paul W0ng

No, there is absolutely no fundamental panning problem using a FW410.

You've got something funky going on in your routing.

Switch Logic to your internal core audio, and use the headhpone output on your computer. Does panning work as expected, or not? If yes, then the issue is related to the 410, if no, then it's in Logic.

Start there. I suspect you've got something odd going on in the mixer panel of the 410, like both outputs panned in the centre or routed to a bunch of channels oddly.

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Answer 6

Jan 25, 2008 3:48 PM in response to Paul W0ng

You are playing a stereo file with only one channel. You probably recorded onto the right channel only, so when you pan left, you are panning to silence.

You can test this by setting the status of the mixer channel. See page 360 in the Logic Pro 8 User Manual. Set the channel to right input format, and see if things don't work for you.

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Paul W0ng Author

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Jan 22, 2008 5:28 PM in response to Paul W0ng

anyone?

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Answer 8

Jan 22, 2008 5:47 PM in response to Paul W0ng

That's what happens if you have a mono audio file i a stereo track. i would use mono fx and see if that works. Dunno, it sounds really weird.

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blayzay

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Jan 22, 2008 6:56 PM in response to Paul W0ng

That's because your using a Control surface and its set to Flip mode,

and not just Global!

Now switch off Flip-Mode and your okay.

Fr.BlayZay.

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Paul W0ng Author

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Jan 22, 2008 7:48 PM in response to blayzay

Thanx for your response guys!

Where do I find this "flip mode" you speak of? This very well maybe the culprit (I hope!)

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