I am trying to pan an audio track. When I move the panning slider, I see the expected impact on the volume fader. However, the effect on the playback is totally unexpected: When it it is panned hard right, I hear the sound in stereo at full volume, and when it is panned hard left, I hear nothing.
Regarding the signal chain, I have the audio track routed to a chain of buses.
Please let me know if anyone has any troubleshooting tips.
It seems that you have a mono signal. If this signal is sent to the right channel of a stereo signal and you pan the sterosignal to the left you hear nothing.
Hope that helps
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Well, if a chain of busses is involved and we do not know any further details this becomes a guessing game.
Just to throw in a possible culprit: Have you got a combined stereo panner on any track which resides in the chain?
I have something similar. My individual, Mono guitar tracks are routed to the stereo group channel Guitar bus, then to the stereo group channel Submaster bus, then to the stereo Master bus. Moving the pan shows the right things in the channel strip but does not end up deleting the Left signal when panning Right and vise versa. Just upgraded to Windows 11, and updated CuBase to the latest version 13.0.51. This just seems to have started when I changed to Windows 11 from Windows 10.
FOUND IT - On my Master (2bus) I had the plugin âstereo enhancerâ running. When I disabled that the problem went away.
Thanks. Happy new year as well.
I do not have any stereo panners. As an troubleshooting step, I disabled all plugins to see if it made a difference. It did not.
As another test, I sent the track in question directly to the stereo out. The problem remained. Thus, it does not seem the problem is from any intermediate bus. I think it must have to do with either the track itself or the stereo out. However, I cannot figure out what.
I have figured out the source of the problem. To record both DI and processed guitar signals, I am using my Axe Fx III as my audio interface. When I switch the audio interface to my Focusrite Scarlett, the problem is resolved. I guess I should have realized this given that my speakers are plugged into the Scarlett.
While that identifies the source of the problem, I am not sure how to solve this other than by using my Axe Fx as my sole audio interface. I donât want to do that since it requires me to always have my Axe Fx on even when I am not playing guitar.
this looks like 1 mono track duplicated into stereo. so I would guess it is phase cancellation
You are right. I wasnât noticing this initially because the guitar patch was not particularly âstereoâ sounding. I then tried a patch that has distinct stereo delay and realized you are correct.
I donât know if you know about Axe Fx, but it appears I am not using it correctly. I just got it, so I am not an expert yet. When my Axe Fx sends a signal via USB, it is only in mono. I am not sure why.
you could spilt this track and experiment with delaying 1 of the tracks in mono to get a stereo
but I would recommend to make it mono, send it to a stereo group and process stereo effects there for best effect
Phase cancellation does not fit this symptom.
When it it is panned hard right, I hear the sound in stereo at full volume
There must be an error in routing if you hear from left and right speakers/headphones when panned fully right.
Without seeing your chain of buses, plugins inserted on them and master track, itâs impossible to say where itâs happening but it isnât an out of phase L/R recording causing that behaviour.
So how do you pan to stereo without them?
A bigger screenshot would come in handy to see more routing settings.
They were answering the question do you have combined stereo panners in use. They just left off the combined bit.
I solved the problem. It was not a Cubase problem. The problem stemmed from my incorrect use of my interface. Thanks for the help everyone.
