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Advanced Applications
40 Quad Panning and 3D Effects in Stereo
130 EMU Systems, Inc.
40 Quad Panning and 3D Effects in Stereo
This effect swirls the sound around four speakers using the LFO. Since the patch
is in the voice, each key will have its own circular pan.
Incidentally, you can try out this effect even if you don’t have a multi-channel
speaker system. A great pseudo-surround effect can be created with only two
speakers by assigning a reverb to the rear channels. It’s a very cool effect.
At first glance, the Emulator X and Proteus X appear to be stereo-only instru-
ments with no provision for surround sound. But wait, there are actually four
stereo outputs and the amounts all four stereo buses can be modulated by any
of the voice modulation sources. There ought to be a way, and there is!
The trick to implementing a smooth quad panning effect is to use something
called a quadrature sine wave, or two sine waves 90 degrees out of phase with
each other. One sine wave moves the panning left and right and the one shifted
90 degrees out of phase pans the sound front to back.
The easiest way to do this on the Emulator X or Proteus X is to use two sine
wave LFOs and shift one of them 1/4 cycle using the delay parameter.
To Implement Quad Panning:
1. Let’s start by loading the Proteus X Composer bank.
2. Select P002 Orchestral from the Tree.
3. Open the preset by clicking on the (+) symbol next to the icon.
4. Select the Voice Processing page.
5. Select All in the Voice Selector to select all voices for processing.
6. Select the LFO/LAGS page by clicking on the tab.
7. Select Sine for both LFOs and set up the parameters as shown with a
Frequency of 1 Hz and a delay of .25 seconds for LFO 2. (One quarter of a
cycle equals 90 degrees.) Make sure Key Sync is on.
8. Now moving over to the Cords section, select the 19-27 tab, which has a
few available cords.
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