User Manual

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4. Double-click the surround panner on the channel strip to display the Surround Panner window.
5. Adjust the panning settings. For more information, see Using the Surround Panner window on page 255.
6. Close the Surround Panner window.
Using the Surround Panner window
Whether you’re adjusting track panning or channel strip panning, you use the same controls in the Surround Panner window.
View the Surround Panner window by double-clicking a surround panner on a track header or channel strip. Once the Surround
Panner window is open, you can dock it in the workspace. For more information, see Window docking area and floating window docks
on page 25.
1. Click the speaker icons to mute or include channels.
Muting a channel ensures that no audio bleeds through a channel. For example, you might want to mute all but the center
channel when you’re panning dialogue to the center channel.
Tip: You can also use the surround panner on the channel strip to pan your track.
Tip: You can also choose Surround Panner from the View menu to display the Surround Panner window. Once the Surround
Panner window is displayed, double-click the surround panner for a track or mixer control to view its pan settings.
Tip: Ctrl+ click a speaker icon to solo the channel.
Double-click to display the
Surround Panner window.
Pan type indicator
= Muted channel
= Active (included) channel
Assign track/bus to LFE channel
Toggle options for constraining
pan point movement
Pan point