Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 - Manual (Page 278)

278 Chapter 8 Basic Mixing in Soundtrack Pro
Setting Channel Strip Pan Position
You pan sounds to different positions to place them in the stereo or the surround field.
You set the pan position of a track or bus channel strip using the stereo pan slider and
value slider or the surround panner. You can’t pan a submix or the Master channel strip.
To set the stereo pan position of a channel strip, do one of the following:
m Drag the pan slider left or right to the pan position you want.
m Click along the length of the pan slider at the point you want to set the pan position.
m Click the left or right arrow on the edges of the pan value slider.
m With the pointer over the center of the pan value slider, hold down the mouse button
and drag left or right.
m Click the center of the pan value slider, then type a new value.
The scale is from –100 to 100, with 0 (zero) as the center value. Negative values are left
of center, and positive values are right of center. The default is 0.
To return the stereo pan slider to the default level, do one of the following:
m Control-click the slider, then choose Set to Centered from the shortcut menu.
m Double-click the knob in the stereo pan slider.
To switch the panning controls from stereo to surround in the channel strip, do one
of the following:
m Select a channel strip in the Mixer, then choose Multitrack > Use Surround Panner.
m Control-click the stereo pan slider, then choose Use Surround Panner from the
shortcut menu.
Pan slider
Pan value slider