Answer: Mixing Desk query
In answer to Don Buckley's question in AMPLINEX 019 about
the way to move the Mixing Desk faders, Alan Minns (AMPLINEX 020) suggests
using VOL commands instead of =L.
However, using VOL in the middle of sections is not, I
believe, what it is intended for and there are disadvantages.
The =L command is intended for use in the middle of words
for setting the volume relative to other volume levels in that part. The VOL
command is intended to set the level for a whole section relative to the other
parts playing.
If you use several VOL commands in a part and then decide
you want the whole part louder, you have to change all the VOL commands; and if
you change the volume in a mix, you will also have to change all the others.
There is also no built-in way to move a fader gradually,
like +L and -L do for the =L level.
Michael Lefevre
Question: Static PAN
Like most AMPLE users, I include in my program mixes a
number of 'PAN' instructions. Recently, I decided to prick up my ears in an
effort to evaluate more precisely the effect of such instructions.
For this purpose, the Autopan instruction is quite
convenient as the number of beats can be large enough so the 'position' will
vary slowly, giving a listener facing the speakers ample time to check where
the sound is coming from.
Well, although the Mixing Desk does monitor the changes of
position from R to L, I can't hear any displacement of the sound in the room.
'Pan' has apparently no effect. Should I blame my system? The 'balance' knob on
the hi-fi set does correctly what the software fails to do.
The MIDI instruction using 10 MIDICONTROL has also no
effect. Perhaps a member will know what should be done to make my system really
'panoramic'.
Roger Sapolsky
Published in AMPLINEX 022, July 1991
