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maks opened this issue Apr 29, 2025 · 7 comments
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Pan values feel reversed #509

maks opened this issue Apr 29, 2025 · 7 comments
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maks commented Apr 29, 2025

Currently a value of 00 is right pan all the way while left pan of FE and if you were to map these to a dial 0 would normally be on the left while max value on the right.

This would be easy enough to change BUT I'm not sure if it will be possible to change this at this point or maybe its not that big a deal to break backwards compatibility on this, would love to hear what others think about this?
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maks commented Apr 29, 2025

This is not really much of an concern with the current pT UI BUT will be once the coming MIDI input support improves as this would be a candidate for a CC and as things stand now I guess me might end up doing a inverse value mapping to make it work sensibly as is

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wynwynyn commented Apr 29, 2025 •
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For me, this hasn't been a concern / I haven't noticed it yet, and I use panning quite a bit, but if this improves UX for people then I fully support it!

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maks commented Apr 29, 2025

Thanks for the feedback @wynwynyn 👍🏻
Given you use it quite a bit, would it be annoying/disruptive for you to have to change the pan settings on your existing projects if the meaning of the panning was to be changed in a future firmware release?

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I don't think it'd annoy me, but having said that, I usually use panning just to add a bit of stereo depth to things, rather than thinking whether something should come out of the left or right channel specifically... In that case yeah, I can imagine it being slightly annoying, but not that big of a deal!

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I don't think this should be changed, specially if it comes from LGPT legacy, there are some expectations on how it works, etc.
If we want to change this I'd rather have the specific UI widget work in reverse and go to zero to the right, or have a different widget with a slider of sorts. But in both cases keep the numerical values as is.

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jobf commented Apr 29, 2025

I usually use panning just to add a bit of stereo depth to things

Yeah same, there's just a weird cognitive glitch with it being backwards. Easy to get used to but initially confusing.

it comes from LGPT legacy

Shouldn't we move forwards? picoTracker is a different beast after all...

A reversed UI widget would be OK, just seems a bit backwards lol

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maks commented Apr 30, 2025

Given the feedback so far, I think we can go ahead and fix this without too big an impact on existing users.

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