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Imaging processors overview
The imaging processors are tools for manipulating the stereo image. You can use them to make
certain sounds, or the overall mix, seem wider and more spacious. You can also alter the phase of
individual sounds within a mix to enhance or suppress particular transients.
Binaural Post-Processing
Each channel strip in Logic Pro allows you to use a special version of the Pan knob, known as
the Binaural Panner. This is a psychoacoustic processor that can simulate arbitrary sound source
positions—including up and down information—when fed a standard stereo signal.
The output signal that results when you use Binaural Panner is best suited for headphone
playback. You can, however, use the integrated conditioning of the Binaural Panner to ensure a
neutral sound that is suitable for speaker playback as well as headphone playback.
For more information about using Binaural Panner with the Binaural Post-Processing plug-in, see
the Logic Pro User Manual.
Binaural Post-Processing parameters
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Compensation Mode pop-up menu: Choose the type of processing applied for dierent
playback systems:
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Headphone FF—optimized for front direction: For headphone playback, utilizing free-eld
compensation. In this mode, sound sources placed in front of the listening position have
neutral sound characteristics.
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Headphone HB—optimized for horizontal directions: For headphone playback, optimized to
deliver the most neutral sound for sources placed on, or close to, the horizontal plane.
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Headphone DF—averaged over all directions: For headphone playback, utilizing diuse-eld
compensation. In this mode, the sound, on average, is most neutral for arbitrarily placed, or
moved, sources.
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Speaker CTC—Cross Talk Cancelation: For speaker playback, allowing you to play back
binaurally panned signals through stereo loudspeakers. Good spatial reproduction is
restricted to a limited range of listening positions, on the symmetrical plane, between the
speakers.
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