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The #1 Logic Pro Mistake When Panning Stereo Tracks

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  • čas přidán 22. 02. 2024
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    Stereo Panning is not as it seems in Logic Pro. At first glance you might think that pan knob of your Stereo Tracks and Channel Strips is moving your signal from left to right. But in fact, by default that knob is a “Balance” knob. Don’t make this Stereo Panning mistake!
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Komentáře • 53

  • @rustywhite2174
    @rustywhite2174 Před 5 měsíci +10

    Brilliant presentation. Now I understand. I now see the source of years of frustration. 😢😊

  • @StuartMealor
    @StuartMealor Před 5 měsíci +4

    Like many others, I missed this very basic setting - how crazy - thanks Chris! Someone should log the option to change the default behaviour between Balance and Pan as a feature request with the Logic Pro dev team. I imagine 90% of people would prefer Pan as the default?

  • @wicky4473
    @wicky4473 Před 5 měsíci +9

    The best channel for learning Logic, and the easiest to understand and follow. Thanks very much.

  • @rafbass
    @rafbass Před 5 měsíci +1

    Came via newsletter. Your content is actually the only internet content that I choose one to pick and follow. Your consistency makes you an awesome educator and mentor. Expect more interaction from me, as I'm going to buy the course pretty much soon and send you a song to critique (sorry! haha).
    Keep up the good work man, you rock! Thanks a lot!!!

  • @rafbass
    @rafbass Před 5 měsíci +2

    Nice detail, I think I'm gonna add that to my master template recording file!

  • @DaleBoyce2012
    @DaleBoyce2012 Před 5 měsíci +2

    I had no idea. Thank you so much for this.

  • @Lighthouse_Electrodelic
    @Lighthouse_Electrodelic Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thanks for the tip Chris. Very important info. I guess I should be right clicking things more often to find all this hidden stuff!

  • @jaimomo65
    @jaimomo65 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I had never realized this important detail, thank you very much for this video!

  • @redlester
    @redlester Před 5 měsíci +3

    Is there no way to change the default setting for new channels to Pan instead of Balance?

  • @averythebright
    @averythebright Před 5 měsíci

    Best Logic channel on CZcams - thanks as always Chris!

  • @winsucks
    @winsucks Před 5 měsíci +1

    You, man, amazing! Such a brilliant drops of information!

  • @786Muzik
    @786Muzik Před 3 měsíci

    Thank You sooo much for explaining this PERFECTLY!!! Rock on

  • @johnnyb5984
    @johnnyb5984 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Why do they have it set to balanced in the first place then if people mostly use stereo pan ?

  • @FLH3official
    @FLH3official Před 5 měsíci +2

    And when you create a stereo track in Logic (audio or virtual instrument) the pan is set by default... to balance.
    I've never understood that.

  • @thaddeuscorea
    @thaddeuscorea Před 5 měsíci

    OMG. love this. I have been wanting that functionality and using plugins to get there. This is MUCH better!

  • @sourcefor
    @sourcefor Před 5 měsíci

    Wow thank you didn’t even think about this til now!

  • @callenclarke371
    @callenclarke371 Před 5 měsíci

    Fantastic info, as always. Thank you for this.

  • @cone-stone
    @cone-stone Před 5 měsíci

    Muchas gracias; algo así tras años en Logic y desconocido para mi! Genial.

  • @wheelhouseproduction1699
    @wheelhouseproduction1699 Před 5 měsíci

    Awesome stuff Chris this is a real important message

  • @muziekkamer
    @muziekkamer Před 5 měsíci

    yesss 💯The best channel for learning Logic

  • @MrRichard1280
    @MrRichard1280 Před 5 měsíci

    Learnt something new

  • @ricardoleon7877
    @ricardoleon7877 Před 5 měsíci

    Hi! Is there a way to add aftertouch to Logic Pro X stock sounds, Native Instruments's and EastWest's? (like vibrato or pitch bend, among others). Thanks... !

  • @turtlefeet7722
    @turtlefeet7722 Před 3 měsíci

    Thanks.

  • @roogrey
    @roogrey Před 5 měsíci

    I've been using Logic for 15 years and I didn't know this! However, I do tend to automate my panning, so does that sidestep the need to select it as a function? Either way, this shows how easy it is to miss the basics. Thank you, Chris!

  • @hanzives4552
    @hanzives4552 Před 5 měsíci

    Great stuff as always!!

  • @Firetuna1
    @Firetuna1 Před 5 měsíci

    this is also important for stereo sounds that sound different in the right and left speaker. the Balance knob will kill half the sound if you pan it.

  • @iliravdyli4109
    @iliravdyli4109 Před 5 měsíci

    We need the logic pro ipad mixer gui in logic pro for mac

  • @swisschaletsauce
    @swisschaletsauce Před 5 měsíci +1

    been using logic for over 15 years and never knew this. i'm both amazed and angry right now

  • @renaldsunset
    @renaldsunset Před 4 měsíci

    HELP please ! When I click while holding "ctrl" nothing happens.
    Also, is this the equivalent of spherical panning in "binaural" ?

  • @roger_rivas
    @roger_rivas Před 5 měsíci

    AWESOME Video!!

  • @dreadtoby
    @dreadtoby Před 5 měsíci

    Useful. Thank you.

  • @telemachia
    @telemachia Před 5 měsíci

    Appreciate you Chris!

  • @andrew6889-p5c
    @andrew6889-p5c Před 5 měsíci

    I’ve always wondered about the when it comes to mono tracks with stereo effects (such as chorus). I “think” the balance control just shuts down half of what it is doing.
    Also, isn’t a balance knob really just a volume fader for each side? It never turns a side up, but it can turn it down. If stuff only lives on one side, you turn it down.

  • @guitar.knackshack2210
    @guitar.knackshack2210 Před 5 měsíci

    Hey Chris, thanks for the great vid. Does this stereo pan behave different than the Direct Mixer? Thank you.

  • @lince4824
    @lince4824 Před 5 měsíci

    Thank you!

  • @urbanimplosion8306
    @urbanimplosion8306 Před 5 měsíci +1

    It is inexplicable that the “pan” default is to “balance.” It took awhile to wire this to my brain so as to make the necessary adjustment on each panned track on each project.

  • @ScottSmithMusic
    @ScottSmithMusic Před 5 měsíci

    Cool. Now I get it. I appreciate that.✨

  • @catojrgensen8912
    @catojrgensen8912 Před 5 měsíci

    Dude. You're a legend.

  • @callenclarke371
    @callenclarke371 Před 5 měsíci

    Logic is a deep ocean of functionality.

  • @tonyvincentproductions
    @tonyvincentproductions Před 5 měsíci +1

    Does anyone know why Logic (still) doesn't have even panning to both extremes? (Left goes to -64, Right goes to 63?) This has been the situation for as long as I can remember... (pre-Apple)

    • @JourdanHines
      @JourdanHines Před 5 měsíci +2

      It's a MIDI thing. Most digital components have a backbone coded to MIDI so that it can be controlled w/ a keyboard, digital rotary knob, fader etc. MIDI parameters have a total of 128 values which technically starts at 0 so it goes to 127 (btw zero is considered a value and therefore worth 1). So the math is 0(which is actually a value of 1) +127=128.
      Back to panning... since panning has a center position considered 0 (which is an even amount of the L and R channels) that means that one side has to have 64 and the other 63 to work out to 128. So the math is as follows: 64+0(which is actually value of 1)+63=128.
      I hope that helps.

    • @tonyvincentproductions
      @tonyvincentproductions Před 5 měsíci

      Totally appreciate that mate... That's in credibly informative @@JourdanHines! (still, visually, it should "appear" equal... I don't recall if PT shows "MIDI'd Panning numbers"... Do you know JH?)

  • @weschilton
    @weschilton Před 5 měsíci

    It would be nice if the tool tip on the nob said "balance" when its in stereo balance mode. Thats what is confusing to me.

  • @theartist124
    @theartist124 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I'm sure they had a reason for doing this but it sure would have been helpful if the would have made the default way, the way we all expect it work!

  • @tomlewis4748
    @tomlewis4748 Před 3 měsíci

    I've never understood why Apple never made that the default setting (once it became available-In Logic 3?). Seems like a no-brainer. Literally.
    There is one other issue here, which is when you have a track of a single instrument (or an effect aux, like for reverb) that has a lot of stereo width inherent already, and where certain aspects (usually certain harmonics) are more to the left and others are more to the right, which is central to what makes a wide stereo instrument or effect sound wide, if you adjust that with the balance knob, that means you are increasing certain dynamics in favor of other dynamics, which means you are changing the timbre (or the envelope) of that sound. That is likely not what anyone would ever have in mind. We have other methods to accomplish a timbre or envelope change which are much more effective.
    But if you adjust with the pan knob, all aspects remain at the original strength, the sound does not change in envelope or timbre, only in pan position (of course the farther you pan the less width there is to that track).
    Of course for mono instruments on separate tracks (not bussed to a stereo bus) it won't matter whether you use balance or pan, but since this has been available, the very first thing I do when creating a template is change all balance to pan, and whenever I add a MIDI instrument, I change it there as well. This is one of the reasons to keep a tranche of pre-set instruments available with specific settings, is that you don't have to be annoyed by having to change from the default (balance) to pan, constantly.
    When this changed Logic Pro (formerly Logic Pro X at the time), it was a significant improvement. Why Apple didn't make pan the default then (or anytime in the years after) just boggles the mind.

  • @johnviera3884
    @johnviera3884 Před 5 měsíci

    they should make it to where if you hold option and command and click the knob you flip the phase of the track and it turns red

  • @steveweilhart2359
    @steveweilhart2359 Před 5 měsíci

    I think you forgot to add that on a mono track/channel the stereo pan cannot be activated only on stereo tracks -

  • @ianfullerpercussion
    @ianfullerpercussion Před 5 měsíci

    I’m here to say that it did not run out of desert power at the end.

  • @michaeldeleglise2671
    @michaeldeleglise2671 Před 5 měsíci

    👍👍👍👍👍

  • @GaryCunninghamyouareenough
    @GaryCunninghamyouareenough Před 5 měsíci

    🤟🙏🏻

  • @jasoncruizer
    @jasoncruizer Před 4 měsíci

    Nothing is getting panned, its an illusion ;) You have 2 speakers in a stereo set up, use the balance knob and the illusion will be either the left or right alone is getting stronger at the expense of the opposite. Use the stereo pan and you will just be diminishing the opposite speaker but feeding some of it into its opposing speaker, Left into right or right into left.
    Nothing is really getting panned its a mind trick, using volume gain in either speaker. Similar to stereo wideners, you cant widen a track, you create an illusion if you use a mid/side eq and increase the volume of the sides, you create an illusion of width, if you diminish the sides you create an illusion of narrowness/monoisation.
    Nothing is really widening or narrowing, just volume level changes.
    Audio engineering is smoke n mirrors, the best engineers are magicians, they know the bulls**t trickery to fool a listener, but understand whats really going on.
    If you look at hard panning, 100% left or 100% right, it makes your ears believe something is to the left or right, in reality we have just diminished the opposite sides volume, we focus more on where the sound is still audible than where its been reduced, tricking us into believing the audio has panned somewhere.