Avid Technology Pro Tools HD 7.2 - Manual (Page 63)

Chapter 5: Grouping Features and Enhancements 57
New Panning Features
In Pro Tools 7.2, there are several options for
setting the behavior of pan controls.
Setting Group Pan Controls to
Ignore Offsets
By default, offsets are preserved for grouped pan
controls. In some workflows, it is desirable to
have grouped pan controls match absolute val-
ues rather than preserve offsets.
To set grouped pan controls to ignore offsets:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences and click Mixing.
2 Select “Use Absolute Pan Linking.”
When this option is enabled, grouped pan con-
trols will snap to the absolute value of the pan
control that is being adjusted.
Linking Main Pan and Send Pan
Controls
You can link pan controls of individual Sends to
the Main pan controls of their corresponding
track, allowing for fast setup of cue mixes or ef-
fects panning.
To link a Send’s Pan controls to the Main Pan
controls of track:
1 Click the Send Assignment button for the
Send you want to link to open the Send window.
2 In the Send window, click the FMP (Follow
Main Pan) button.
Linked Send pan controls appear in light grey.
To change the default FMP setting for newly
created sends:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences and click Mixing.
2 Under Setup, select or deselect Sends Pans De-
fault to Follow Main Pan.
Two-Knob Surround Panning
(ICON Only)
With D-Control and D-Command, when work-
ing with surround panning, you can link front
and rear pan controls to facilitate left-right mo-
tion in the surround field.
To link front and rear surround panners on ICON:
1 Press the Operation switch in Console Prefs
section until “2KbPan” appears in the Soft Keys.
2 Press the Soft Key that corresponds to
“2KbPan” to toggle the preference on or off.
Linking Send Pan to Main Pan