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Pro Tools Reference Guide1234
By default, Pro Tools surround panners are 100%
or fully divergent, meaning that a signal that is
panned completely to one speaker will only be au-
dible in that speaker.
Lower divergence settings result in a progressively
wider source signal. When Divergence is less than
100%, tracks will be routed to neighboring speak-
ers to some degree, even when the Pan Location
cursor is positioned next to a single speaker.
To adjust divergence:
 Adjust the Front, Rear, and Front/Rear Diver-
gence controls as necessary.
Divergence Editing Mode
In Divergence Editing mode, you can adjust the di-
vergence boundaries by dragging directly in the
Divergence Grid.
To adjust divergence graphically:
1 Click on the Panning Mode button until the
Divergence Editing icon is displayed.
2 Drag in the Grid to resize the divergence bound-
aries.
Center % (Percentage)
In LCR, LCRS, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1 7.0, 7.0 SDDS,
7.1, and 7.1 SDDS surround formats, the
Center %
controls whether there is a discrete center channel
for the track or a phantom center channel.
Center Percentage Example
In film and video production, the center channel
often contains dialog. To enhance the clarity of di-
alog, it is often beneficial to keep elements such as
music out of the center speaker. By reducing the
Center Percentage on music tracks, music panned
to the front of the soundfield can be panned to only
the left and right speakers, forcing them to have a
variable phantom center image.
Front Divergence at less than 100% for wider panning
Front
Divergence
Pan Location
cursor
Panner Mode button set to Divergence Editing