Stereo Pan not responding

Thanks in advance for your time. OK...I have a stereo track. No plug ins on channel. Assigned to stereo output. No plugs there either. I have Control clicked the channel pan pot and chose "stereo pan". Pan pot turns all green. Problem...it will not respond to movement of pointer. Neither the stereo placement OR the width will respond. What am I missing? I have current version of Logic Pro X. Again, thanks, Barry

Try to click-hold the center of the pan circle and drag down.

Thanks David...but I am doing exactly that.The channel pan knob is green. Stereo pan is selected. But zero response on the channel in the mixer window - same with the channel in the inspector window - However...the channel pan NOT in the mixer section responds. It's green of course - but panning reacts the same as "balance". I see 2 signals - but panning left tp right removes the signal opposite of the panning direction. That is...panning left reduces the right signal until it's gone when full left. I'm really confused. Barry

I'm not sure what result you're expecting exactly, or what signal you're using to test this? Do you see no movement of the pan knob at all when dragging or do you see a movement of the knob graphically but no result on the meters?

Hi David. I see no movement of the pan knob at all when it is selected as "stereo" (green). Attempting to drag results in zero movement. I will try to upload a screenshot later this morning. Thanks again, Barry

Have you tested on other tracks? What about other projects?

I am experiencing the exact same thing with 10.4.6, but only on certain projects and at certain times. For instance, after it happened the first time I opened my template and everything was fine. Then I opened the project that was giving me this bug in 10.4.4 and everything was fine. Then I opened it back up in 10.4.6 and . . . everything was fine! That was a week ago, and just yesterday it started happening again. I can't find any consistent factor yet . .

Here's where it stands and what I found this earlier...I was on the phone this morning with Apple for 1hr 24minutes with a senior Logic tech. Every avenue under the sun was explored, including trashing the version I was using (the current 10.4.6), and reinstalling. Even trying a new project using another "user" account. Nothing solved the issue and left the tech expert (who was extremely helpful by the way) throughly baffled. We shared my screen...I mean everything. So...it has gone to the engineers for ideas and I should know something in a day or so. I will post the outcome, whatever it ends up being as soon as I know. Frustrating to say the very least. Barry

Are you using a non apple mouse ?

No. Apple mouse.

And everything else on the computer works normally with the mouse? Sometimes I have a glitchy mouse all around. Then notice that something is pressing (usually my headphones) on my trackpad I keep off to the side.

 

Also, I noticed the stereo pan got much toucher with 10.4.5 but it never stopped working altogether. Just got harder to grab and move the ends. It seemed that it was worse on some tracks than others.

Thanks in advance for your time. OK...I have a stereo track. No plug ins on channel. Assigned to stereo output. No plugs there either. I have Control clicked the channel pan pot and chose "stereo pan". Pan pot turns all green. Problem...it will not respond to movement of pointer.

Well apparently you're not the only one: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=143961&p=747155#p747155

I have exactly the same problem - tried Blank templates, launching without Core Audio etc etc

Magic Mouse - Fine for Balance Pan , no response for Stereo Panning (except an attempt at scrolling the window)

I am hoping that the 10.5 bug fix "Fixes an issue where the click zone to control Stereo Pan is unexpectedly small." refers to this bug. I won't be able to update for a couple of weeks, and then it's a matter of wait and see, as the bug appears to occur randomly . .

I have the Update- same problem

Same issue here with 10.5

Having same here with 10.5

 

Any workaround or fix?

My Behringer X-Touch, and therefore I assume Mackie Control or Logic Control, can still adjust stereo width and direction when these random Gui freeze hit, but otherwise it seems not . .

I updated my Logic Pro to 10.5.1. and at least on first round stereo pan and width adjusting seemed to work fine!

I'm on 10.5.1 and it's just not working. Anyone know whether it's fixed in 10.6 (recently released so I'm still avoiding)?

FOLLOW UP: After restarting Logic I'm now getting it to work. Not the first time I've had odd things suddenly disappear after a restart. Worth a try if you're having problems.

FOLLOW UP: After restarting Logic I'm now getting it to work. Not the first time I've had odd things suddenly disappear after a restart. Worth a try if you're having problems.

Ok great good to hear and thanks for letting us know. The good old restart-fixes-all solution.

Had this issue for about a year. Fixed it by going to preferences>audio>MP3 then select Stereo Mode Normal.

Another hard to spot issue that can make one track be in mono:

an effect, such as a Logic EQ plugin, can be set to Stereo or Dual Mono. If the plugin is on an aux bus  set to mono it will defeat stereo panning on tracks sent to that bus.

If you click by the right side of the effect plugin in the channel strip, you will see the popup menu.

When you add some effects, Logic prompts you. But you might have also mistakenly set a plugin to mono, in which case it will defeat panning.

This happened to me today, and this is how I fixed it -- by checking all plugins on the bus and found one mistakenly set to mono instead of stereo.

 

2 hours ago, akubot said:

this is how I fixed it -- by checking all plugins on the bus and found one mistakenly set to mono instead of stereo.

Hi akubot, and welcome to Logic Pro Help ! Thanks for sharing your solution, and you're right, this is a very common issue, ending up with mono plug-ins on a stereo track and therefore not being able to pan as expected. 

On 1/19/2021 at 8:06 AM, Tom Doughty said:

Had this issue for about a year. Fixed it by going to preferences>audio>MP3 then select Stereo Mode Normal.

This was the fix for me. It worked instantly! Give Tom a trophy!!