Hi,
The stereo combined panner is a pro feature (why?). Which means my writing partner can’t use this funstionality in Artist,
For the last 12 years, we have had to use a third party dual panner plugin, when I pass projects from pro to artist and visa versa, wasting one insert slot in the process.
The one we have used is VST 2 only.
So does any one know of a VST 3 dual / combined panner, we could use to get around the daftness of stereo panning being a Pro feature.
I´m with you, that´s a drag if you don´t use the Pro version.
I just searched for “combined stereo panner free vst3” - there are numereous free VST3s out there.
However, maybe someone has already tested one of them here in this forum. Good luck!
But why? You can still use the vst2 version.
To use VST2 plugins, you must enable the “Enable VST 2 Plug-ins” option in the VST Plug-in Manager window.
Steinberg dropped the support for vst2 but you can still use them if you select the option which defaults to disabled.
That is indeed true. But Steinberg said in Jan 2013 they were phasing out VST2 in the next two years.
I was expecting Cubase 14 to drop in January 2025 without VST2 support.
I don’t expect Cubase 15 to support VST 2. So turning VST 2 on, only delays the inevitable. (and I really don’t want to have to write my own, which I might end up doing).
This is the only VST2 (other than Absynth) that we both use. So I’d prefer not to turn VST 2 on in Cubase 14, just for one VST and pollute my plugin manager any further.
So what is it that you want?
Just to know why stereo combined panner is a pro feature?
Cheaper versions are always lighter on features and panner is one of them that you get to buy on higher versions I guess.
Stereo Tool by Flux is free and is a VST3 panner with individual panning for left and right.
Thanks, Stereo Tool might be what we need, even if a bit overkill. We shall have a play.
But I would like to know why Steinberg think the combined panner is a pro feature. I understand why most of the pro features are pro, but dual panning? That makes no sense to me.
I understand but they have to limit some choices I guess.
I don’t know their criteria but I think of it like choosing the features that have an extension of basic functions.
i.e. the panner, is the mono panner, the standard stereo, and the combined stereo.
Most users could easily work with the first two, so that’s leaving the latter to be featured on higher versions.
Still just a guess though.
Sorry for my weird tone in my earlier post, was just trying to help and couldn’t really understand what you seek for.
Hope that helped 
Cheers, George
Installed Flux stereo tool.
It does what we need, for free, so thanks for the recommendation.
To me, a drum kit is a small thing in the scheme of things, when I see a gig, the drum kit is not the width of the entire stage.
Taking a stereo drumkit and bringing it in, so it isn’t full width, is a basic thing not a pro thing.
Cubase Artist forces your drum kit to be the width of the stage. Stereo panning does not help unless you are trying to re-create “I am the morning” by Oceansize which has the drums only in the left channel. 
Anyway, thanks again!
Never thought of it this way! Cool, thanks!