Interestingly enough I would suggest creating panning expressions in a library-less file to cover the spectrum, which I would divide into 7 locations from full left to center to full right. I realize we each might choose more or fewer locations as being audible or not, so you could create three or five or whatever suits you.

Then save the library as panning.lib and you can open it into any work you want and use the panning instructions where you want.

More of a bother to create but once created easy to use over and again, as opposed to the midi tool.



Tim Thompson wrote:
Norm,

If you want to avoid the trouble of creating non-printing expressions, and
having them on your score, the other way is to use the MIDI tool.  Select
the entire staff that you wish to pan (click in front of the staff), and set
CC 10 value to whatever you like, as David describes below.  You might try
vn 1 at 0, va at 42, vc at 84, and vc at 127.

Using expressions for something like this are good if you will have many
changes throughout the piece, and you assign the expressions to metatools,
but for this, I would grab the MIDI tool first--it's just a simpler process.

Tim

On 11/15/02 6:28 AM, "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Stereo issues such as you raise are easily handled by expressions.

Create non-printing expressions with playback options set to Controller,
and controller set to 10: Pan and then set to whatever number you want.
You don't need separate expressions for each part, just for each
placement you want.  So you can place your violin 1 full left, violin 2
full right, viola sort of left and cello sort of right.  You can
experiment with the actual numerical values to find the exact placement
you want.  0 is full left, if I recall correctly and depending on how
your speakers are set, 127 is full the other way, with 63 being dead center.



Roving Rowes wrote:
[snip]

And now for an entirely different question:  is there a way to get the
various voices in a score to play back only on the left side or right side?
I.e., if I'm working on a string quartet and want the first violin and viola
to play back on the left while the cello and the second violin play back on
the right to achieve a stereo effect.  Maybe better yet, have the first
violin play back totally on the left, the viola 2/3 on the left and 1/3 on
the right, the cello 1/3 on the left and 2/3 on the right, and the second
violin totally on the right which would produce a sound very similar to what
one would receive while standing in the midst of or directly in front of a
quartet in which the players are, left to right, first violin, viola, cello,
and second violin.  I haven't been able to find a way to do that.  (And I'm
using speakers plugged into the sound card, not a MIDI instrument.)  Thanks.

Norm

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