Track Panning and buss issues and general Vegas useability

tazio wrote on 4/21/2005, 8:31 PM
Hi there guys,

I hope I'm not opening up any old wounds here but I'm just trying to cover every issue with Vegas before committing 3 studios to a complet makeover based around Vegas. And following this forum I've noticed that this issue is a bone of contention. I refer to sending a panned track to an effect and expecting the return to be panned. As per the following thread. :
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=19&MessageID=325221

So I've been testing with V.5 & V.3 and found that in v.3 panning from the track is reflected in both the effect input and return, but this is not so in V.5 (or 6 presumably). Maybe it is an ASIO thing as has been conjectured.

I've also had a look in my O2R, and reverb in and out does NOT reflect channel pan. The return is centred no matter what the position. And when I think back to analog days (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) I seem to remember that outboard effect returns were always centred, though memory could be failing me.

I guess as I follow this forum I am becoming aware that a lot of users want music based features, whereas an audio post facility is where Vegas really shines. Apart from tape-style scrubbing (which I'd love), are there any other issues that I should be aware of?

I find Vegas great for sound for TVCs, films and vids generally. It's great to have the captured video on a timeline unlike other DAWs.
It's an excellent ADR tool as well. I've tried and tested Nuendo, PT and Fairlight and I still think Vegas eats them for breakfast.

I've also got to say what a great forum this is and great tech info is immediately available - Rednroll you're grumpy, but as we say in Oz you're a dead set legend.

Comments

H2000 wrote on 4/21/2005, 9:02 PM
We still don't have any explaination for the change to the routing. It's not an ASIO thing or it would have appeared in V4. Also, Acid still has the old routing where the pan is reflected. So, we don't know why it was changed in V5.

I think Pipeline described it best when he said:

"If you think about it...it follows the routing of a real console now.
However, that is useless to us, isnt it?
In the real world, you can feed two different auxes to an effect unit. In the DX/VST world, you can either feed one mono aux or one stereo aux to a bus, you just cant split it up like in the real world, so we need it back the way it was
Plus now its broken our old projects."

It's not unusable. There is a pan plugin if you wish to pan a send. However, it doesn't allow for different panning laws. And trying to recreate old projects in the newer versions (5&6) can be quite a bit of work.