Double-click to display the Surround Panner window

4.Adjust the panning settings. For more information, see Using the Surround Panner window on page 240.

5.Close the Surround Panner window.

Tip: You can also use the surround panner on the mixer control to pan your track.

Using the Surround Panner window

Whether you’re adjusting track panning or mixer control panning, you use the same controls in the Surround Panner window.

View the Surround Panner window by double-clicking a surround panner on a track header or mixer control. Once the Surround Panner window is open, you can dock it in the ACID workspace. For more information, see Docking and floating ACID windows on page 247.

Tip: You can also choose Surround Panner from the View menu to display the Surround Panner window. Once the Surround Panner window is displayed, double-click the surround panner for a track or mixer control to view its pan settings.

Toggle options for constraining pan point movement

Assign track/bus to LFE channel

Pan point

= Muted channel

= Active (included) channel

Pan type indicator

1.Click the speaker icons to mute or include channels.

Muting a channel ensures that no audio bleeds through a channel. For example, you might want to mute all but the center channel when you’re panning dialogue to the center channel.

Tip: Ctrl + click a speaker icon to solo the channel.

2.Drag the pan point to position the sound within the sound field. For more information, see Moving the pan point on page 241.

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