The mockup on the first channel by Evan is really cool. It gives you the possibility to control width and placing visually in the same control. Shouldn't be that difficult to implement coding wise either.
Hi, I was wondering how to do this in Reaper and found this thread. I figured out a way that is not ideal but it seems to work and it is not that painful unless you have a lot of stereo tracks. Check out the JPEG. I have one stereo track called Stereo WAV (with the stereo wav file) that I send to a Dummy track called Stereo PAN. I created 2 sends as seen in the JPEG. I can then narrow the stereo field using the PAN sliders to each Send or from each Receive. If you do it from the Receive side (Stereo PAN), you will see the Pan faders in the Stereo WAV I/O follow but not the other way around. Probably a Bug or maybe not since this may not be considered WAD. You guys probably already knew this but I thought I was add it in case someone else may be interested. Thanks Brian
Not sure if someone else has said it, but what you really want is the ability to pan both sides of a stereo track... and set the levels for both sides as well. Perhaps 2 pan knobs and then the fader would be a split down the middle design.
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+1 This is a FR that must not, Like Lennon so well put it, vanish in the haze. I my self prefer the knob solution a la Propellerhead/Record. The PT style feels a bit... dinosaur.
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sonar's channel tools plugin does this and more, such as mid and side settings, and phase delay. it's still a good idea though, but channel tools is cool too and can do more, and i recently discovered how quick it is to go into plugins in mixer mode, i never used to use mixer mode really, until i made this key discovery. that said, the way channel tools' interface works would be a good and simple way of implementing this feature as well. a slider who's width you can modify and that can slide left or right. this is probably the simplest way to do it. except you can't mid/side it. similar to tal dub track method. sliders you can make wide by draggin extremities and that you can displace by dragging middle.