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WAVELAB
19 – 470 The Audio Montage
About pan modes
The four pan modes all relate to the fact that without power compensa-
tion, the power of the sum of the channels will drop by about 3 dB if a sig-
nal is panned hard left or right, compared to the same signal being
panned center. You should experiment with the modes to see which fits
best in a given situation. Proceed as follows:
1. Open the pan envelope speed menu by right-clicking the pan envelope
curve.
2. Select “Pan mode” on the menu.
A submenu opens. Select one of the following four modes:
Transforming clips
On the clip speed menu, you will find a submenu called Transform. This
contains two items: “Time-stretch to cursor…” and “Pitch Shift…”. When
you use one of these functions, a clone of the original audio file is auto-
matically created, containing exactly the audio range used in the clip. The
selected processing is applied to the clone, and the clip will reference to
this file instead. The Transform functions can be viewed as “non-destruc-
tive”, since the original audio files are not affected.
Channel damp
(0dB / mute)
This mode will not compensate for power loss at all. If a signal is
panned hard left or right, the power of the sum of the channels will
drop by 3dB.
Constant power
(+3dB / mute)
This is the default mode. Regardless of the pan position, the power of
the sum of the channels will remain constant.
Channel boost
(+4.5dB / mute)
If this mode is selected and a signal is panned hard left or right, the
power of the sum of the channels will actually be higher than with a
signal panned center.
Channel boost
(+6dB / mute)
This is the same as the previous option, but with even greater power
boost.