Panning music up and down?

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DJToucanCS

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I use FL Studio to produce and I had the idea. Is it possible to pan a sound up or down. Instead of the sound coming from the left or right, it comes from the top or bottom. If you understand what I'm saying, is this possible?
 
Hey, I use fl too and I thought of this before as well... Basically you can't pan up/down. I thought of panning across 4 spaces (like in car speakers) but you can't really do that either. People may suggest using doppler fx but that basically changes "speed" and frequency. Basically the up/down panning you are looking for is pitching up/down... so you can't pan vertically
 
I use FL, what effects could I use to mix for 5.1 separation? so far I use panomatic or stereo separation but I don't think either are geared to specifically separate for 5.1
 
No 5.1 isn't a plug in. It's a format of recording. You;ve probably seen it in home theatre setups. The format got its start in the movie theatre. You know how you can go to see a movie and you hear most of the sounds coming from in front of you, but then everyone in a while you'll hear something coming directly from your left or your right? That's 5.1. Its not a plug in or an effect, it's actually mixing with the intent of using more than 2 speakers.

Regular audio is 2 channel. Right and Left. 5.1 is six channels. So you have your right and left, plus you have a center channel, 2 surround channels, and your subwoofer channel. The .1 is the subwoofer channel becuase it actually has a max frequency range that you can put through to it, becuase its supposed to be just for the bass, so its not a full 22KHZ signal, hence the 5.1 instead of 6, get it?

There's no way to take a stereo audio recording and just use a plugin to make it 5.1. Well there are some ways to do that, but they're all booty. You actually have to make the decisions when your mixing, what do you want to go to what channels? And then when your done you have to mix it down to a special format. You can't just mix it down to a stereo wav and then convert that to an mp3. You wont be able to play your 5.1 mix on an mp3 player.

It's pretty ineteresting next level shit. Not many producers **** with it. You'll have to do your own research to figure out how it's done, and probably the final product you'll end up with it a DVD. I looked into a long time ago but never actually produced something in the format.

Here's a couple links for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.1_surround_sound

http://www.idmforums.com/showthread.php?t=6826

http://emusician.com/tutorials/5-1_mix/

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You also might want to look into Binaural Recording:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-m...78936-binaural-recording-mixing-speakers.html
 
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^^^^^ awesome find!
Well the credits in that youtube vid say its binaural recording.. so idk if im going to go that far but ill check out panorama if i can find it for $0
 
yea its possible. But it doesnt really make sense if you dont have the right gear to monitor it. You wouldnt really hear the effect on regular monitors
 
Place a speaker on top of the other :)

I think the up-down dimension is usually to do with EQ. Bass sounds sound like they come from the bottom and higher frequencies from the top.

You might get more advice if you posted this in the mixing section.

EP
 
Ive found a make shift way to semi do it, Basically I pan it to the left and right, never even always different amounts for each note. And screw with the volumes alot make em messy. Works well to achieve that up and down panning especially if you have some delay on the instrument
 
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