Sony SF-10000 User Manual
Pan/Expand
Pan/Expand allows you to create panning effects and stereo compression/expansion in selections.
Creating a pan
A pan is used to control the apparent position of a sound between the left and right channels of a stereo file.
1.
Open the Musicbed.pca file.
2.
From the Process menu, choose Pan/Expand. The Pan/Expand dialog is displayed.
3.
From the Preset drop-down list, choose Left to right (linear). The pan envelope is displayed on the graph.
Hard left at start of audio
Hard right at end of audio
The pan envelope is
displayed on the graph.
displayed on the graph.
4.
Click OK. The file is converted to stereo and a left-to-right pan is added.
5.
Play the file. The audio source seems to move from the left channel to the right channel during playback.
Note:
A pan, by nature, cannot be created in a mono file.
Creating a custom pan
You can create complex custom panning effects using up to 16 envelope points.
1.
Open the Musicbed.pca file.
2.
From the Process menu, choose Pan/Expand. The Pan/Expand dialog is displayed.
3.
Configure the pan envelope using the following controls:
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Click the envelope to create a new point.
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Drag a point to move it to a new position.
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Double-click or right-click a point to delete it.
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Right-click an envelope segment and choose a new fade type from the shortcut menu.
4.
Click OK. The custom pan is applied to the file.
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