Jade Starr Music

True Pan

by Quantovox

Rotates a whole stereo field while preserving its geometry

Apr 13, 202359 minWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 16:44Spatializer as a widener, against what True Pan does instead
  2. 21:26Motion turning the direction control on its own, into a tremolo
  3. 23:42Mode one mapping angles from the input, mode two remapping them
  4. 31:16Width before and after the rotation, down to mono and back
  5. 33:10Adaptive, profiled and standard gain compensation compared
  6. 35:23A binaural street recording, traffic moved to the bottom right

What it does

An AUv3 that repositions a stereo signal by rotating the whole field rather than balancing two channels, so the spatial relationships inside the input survive the move and it can be undone. A direction control sets the angle, two modes decide whether angles map straight off the input or get remapped, and width sits before and after the rotation alongside adaptive, profiled and standard gain compensation. A motion section works as an LFO, free running or locked to host tempo.

In the demo

Jade builds a Glitch Shaper soundscape and sweeps direction by hand before handing it to motion, then moves the traffic in a binaural street recording across the field. She feeds it two microphones as one stereo input, shows the directional inversion warning appear once the source is mono, and puts reverb ahead of it in the chain to hear it displaced.

Worth knowing

It is built for stereo material, and mono sources trip that warning rather than behave. Headphones matter for hearing any of this, and it does not load on M1 Macs.

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