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VeryAnnoyed2016
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December 31, 2020
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Cannot get Audition panning to work in multitrack mode.

  • December 31, 2020
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So have no problems setting key frames on a clip.  However, when I play it back in multitrack mode, the path has zero effect on the stereo imaging.  

 

Have tried stereo clip in stereo channel, mono clip in mono channel.  Setting up the spline path no problem...but it has zero effect on playback.  Have only the one track active using 

 

Have one hint: when in Clip Editor mode, the panning works fine.  

 

What am I doing wrong?  Attached screen capture to show the clip and settings.  Note I removed other channel so is only left side.  Yet...it still plays to both sides in multitrack.  I don't get it.  Am new to Audition but not audio editing.  

 

Sure is something easy...do wish Audition had more "tool tips" when hover.  

 

Thanks in advance for info,

 

Richard

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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January 1, 2021

I can't quite see all the track controls. The one I specifically can't see is the one just to the right of the pan control, which is the Sum to Mono button. If that's depressed, then you will get exactly the symptoms you describe...

 

 

 

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VeryAnnoyed2016Author
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January 1, 2021

Hi Steve & appreciate the response.  Not seeing Sum-to-Mono selected anywhere.  Here is pic w/annotation.  Note in both tracks are waveforms I am trying to get to play in one channel.  Mono track with mono wave still playing in both channels.  Stereo track panned to one side still playing balanced in both.  ???  Has to be something simple like that, though.  

 

Richard

 

 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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January 1, 2021

For a start, even though the tracks are mono and stereo respectively, neither of the waveforms is mono - they are both stereo waveforms with nothing in the RH channel - that's obvious just from looking at the way the waveforms are displayed. And in the context of Audition's multitrack system, they aren't mono files and won't behave as though they are.

 

Secondly, you've soloed one track, but you haven't muted any of the other ones; when soloing, this can make a significant difference to what you hear if you haven't selected the soloing to be non-exclusive. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that like the panning laws, once you've set them for a session, the soloing mode can't be altered unless you actually edit the session file. Not 100% sure, but I'd assume that this is the case. Almost invariably, having the soloing set to exclusive is way more useful.

 

Obviously I can't reproduce your layout entirely, but I can tell you that if you start with a signal in one channel only, panning won't work - all you will do is raise and lower the level of that channel - you won't be able to alter its relative position in the stereo field. You need to do one of two things; either convert the files to proper mono ones, or if you want them to remain as two-channel ones, copy the left channel to the right one so that it looks like stereo, even though it isn't. Either of those should let you pan the mono properly into the stereo field.

 

 

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