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When a channel strip’s Pan control is enabled, the Pan area displays the panning that’s being
applied. Unlike the EQ or Dynamics controls, you can adjust a channel’s panning by dragging
the handles that appear within this small area of the channel strip.
The channel strip’s Pan indicator
The Audio Pan window contains the following controls:
 Left/Right: Changes the balance of signal between the left and right side speakers
you’re outputting to, depending on what speaker format you’re mixing to. At its simplest,
accommodates stereo output.
 Front/Back: Changes the balance of signal between the front and back sets of
speakers you’re outputting to, depending on what speaker format you’re mixing to.
 Rotate: Simultaneously adjusts the left/right and front/back pan controls in order to
rotate a surround mix about the centre of the room.
 Spread: Only available when a linked group of mono tracks is selected. Spread adjusts
the perceived size of a surround mix.
 Divergence: Spreads the signal for an individual feed across more of the adjacent
loudspeakers, making the perceived size of the sound source larger.
 Boom: The send level of that track to the LFE part of the mix.
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On: Enables this functionality.
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Pre: Lets you adjust the “dry” part of the signal separately from the “wet” part of the
signal when effects are applied.
The 3D Audio Pan Controls
Option-double-clicking on the Pan control of the Mixer opens an alternate 3D Audio Pan
window. Whereas the regular Pan window lets you do stereo and conventional 5.1 and 7.1
surround panning, the 3D Audio Pan window lets you do the kind of spatial audio positioning
enabled by advanced surround formats such as Auro 3D and NHK 22.2 (more information about
specific support for these and other formats will come later).
The 3D Pan window
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