[ardour-dev] The new pan paradigm

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:42:41 -0700, R Parker wrote:
> > > possibly correct. i'd be pretty interested to know
> > if PT's panning
> > > system tries to compensate for this. the manual
> > says absolutely
> > > nothing about it, and i suspect not.
> > 
> > How could it, and why would it? Reverbs dont usually
> > have a 'pan' control
> > of this kind, sometimes they have balance and/or
> > stereo width, but youre
> > right, it doesnt make much sense to maniplaute the
> > splitting of the reverb
> > outs into the stereo reverb field by channel.
> 
> Some reverbs have source and tails that can be
> positioned anywhere within the stereo field. This is
> useful for creating greater sense of three dimensional
> space i.e. source Left, tail right with a time delay.
> Not sure if these are pans or balances.

Hopefully neither, you can get that effect by manipulating the FDN
parameters of the reverb.

- Steve