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  • Panning in VI Pro

    J
    J

    Hi,

    Mentioned before but worth a re-visit - panning in VI - Pro. I find this quite tricky -  the articulation pan/width control is a bit small and fiddly, I know necessary to fit them all in.

    I have 3 issues:

    They are a little difficult to adjust with accuracy - they are not consistent in that they may appear in the same graphic position but give different readouts.

    You cannot hear the adjustment during a note that is playing (the adjustment only occurs on the next played note).

    You have to adjust every single pan control of every single articulation. So say you've got 20 articulations of the same instrument and you decide you want the instrument to change position in your mix from mid left to mid right that is 20 pan controls to move.

    Another plea for a main pan/width control on the instrument out - otherwise it's back to using the rather inferior image control plug-in in Logic....

    Otherwise VI-Pro is working out fab.

    Julian 
  • J
    J
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    @julian said:

    So say you've got 20 articulations of the same instrument and you decide you want the instrument to change position in your mix from mid left to mid right that is 20 pan controls to move.

    Ah... for that you should use a bus! If you are in a sequencer (Logic, Cubase, Protools) simply assign the output of all 20 VIs to a bus and use the bus for your audio routing.

    If you are in VE pro, that pesky little default track that VSL insists on putting into every default instance is a bus. Use it.
  • J
    J

    No this is VI Pro it's a single plug-in!

    Julian
  • J
    J

    Julian,

    If you are loading 20 articulations of an instrument into a single VI Pro instance, then use the power of the audio output routing. DON'T pan within the articulations. SIMPLY use the default out of the instrument, and use the host audio mixer for panning. Done. Why make it more complicated than it needs to be?
  • J
    J

    VSL came up with a great panner width control first seen in Vienna Ensemble. This is superior to the "panning" in Logic. In Logic you can only route via 2 mono channels to achieve a similar result. A pan control on a stereo channel in Logic does not pan but merely reduce left or right channel information (not the same). The Logic image control plug-in does not work as a true width and panner either because if you reduce the image width to mono, or very narrow, the pan function no longer has any effect.

    As a very experienced Pro Logic user I'm aware of it's routing and panning possibilities but non of them replicate the Vienna panner. That is why the post was directed to the guys in Vienna to request their excellent pan/width control is put on the main output of Vienna Pro - there is space for it, it doesn't affect any other operations and it already exists as an equivalent in Vienna Ensemble it would be an excellent addition!

    Julian