Can't pan

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I was going to send a project to a studio to mix better than I can and was told stereo files were redundant and would be deleted, so I had several that were rendered with the default and became stereo, and so I converted them and deleted the extra tracks. I had wanted to just merge the stereo into one mono, but that wasn’t a choice, just creating left and right tracks.

For some reason, 2 are able to be panned. while 4 others have pan off and I can’t move the ball to the middle or anywhere. What happened?

Weird. I went to an earlier version of the project, and split there and the 2 tracks have working pans. Then I came back to the present project and re-enable the original midi track to try rendering with different settings, and it’s always stereo. Mix to one audio file is grayed out.

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Typically that occurs when a Stereo Track is Routed to a Mono destination.

Off topic, but that seems pretty harsh from the studio. They can tell you what they prefer, but you’re their customer & if what you’ve got are stereo files they should just smile and deal with it.

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Did you convert them from the project tab in the menu bar or just the render menu?

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It was the project tab. But I just did it over again and this time they were panable, so deleted the others.

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I’m glad it cooperated this time!!