Reference Guide

948 Surround Mixing (Producer and Studio only)

Panning in surround

Unlike stereo panning which sends sound to left and right speakers, surround panning means

sending sound to multiple speakers at points along a circle.

When a track/bus/send is assigned to a surround bus, the Pan control turns into a multi-dimensional

surround panner. The surround panner comes in four sizes:

• Micro. This is found in the Track view.

• Small. This is found on sends.

• Medium. This is the surround panner which is displayed in the Track Inspector and Console

view.

• Large. This is a large surround panner (see “Controlling surround panning” on page 949 for a

picture) which has additional controls, and appears when you right-click a surround panner and

choose Open Surround Panner from the pop-up menu, or double-click outside the surround

panner circle, or press ENTER when the panner has focus.

A. Micro surround panner in Track view B. Six channel output meter

Figure 279. Console view surround panner

A. Medium surround panner in Console view

The small and large panners are always synchronized; the large panner simply provides increased

resolution when you adjust the surround pan position.

Note 1: Surround panning is not available for tracks/sends that are routed to non-surround

buses.