[SoX-devel] [ sox-Bugs-2037107 ] pan effect needs to be documented or removed

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Bugs item #2037107, was opened at 2008-08-03 20:26
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: robs (robs)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: pan effect needs to be documented or removed

Initial Comment:
Some users can't understand how to use the pan effect (and neither can I).

>From soxeffect: "This  is  done  by changing  the  volume of the input channels so that it fades out on one channel and fades-in on another." --- at what rate do the fades occur? 

Also, from soxeffect: "If the number of  input channels  is  different  then the number of output channels then this effect tries to intelligently handle this.   For  instance, if  the input contains 1 channel and the output contains 2 channels, then it will  create  the  missing  channel  itself" --- but what does it do for other numbers of channels? And what's this got to do with panning anyway? Isn't this mixer/remix territory?

Hmmm, looking at the code, there's no sign of any fading going on.  Does this effect do anything useful?


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