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Key Features
The Sound Particles Panner Collection is a panning effect bundle comprised of the ‘Energy Panner’ and ‘Brightness Panner’ plugins, giving you all the tools you need to add depth and excitement to your mixes.
Sound Particles Energy Panner is a unique sound designer plugin that offers the ability to automatically pan audio tracks within your mix based on their intensity. From traditional stereo to immersive binaural and Dolby Atmos, Energy Panner changes how you view sound in a 3D space. Using proprietary analysis tools, you can dynamically move tracks across the spatial field to add excitement and energy to your mixes. Move your drums in surround sound motion based on the attack or widen synths to a huge stereo field on the soft decay and explore sound design in a completely new way.
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Taking a basic principle such as panning and transforming it into something unique and creative is always a difficult task. Brightness Panner offers a unique take on panning through the proprietary frequency analysis algorithms, resulting in your sounds being placed across the stereo field for added excitement and movement. Presenting two different modes, Panning and Sliding, Brightness Panner delivers a wide range of functionality to change how your panning operates.
In Panning mode, the user interface allows you to spread your audio across the spectrum end-to-end, where the sound will move from one point to the next. In Sliding Mode, however, whenever your audio signal is within the frequency or pitch range, the audio moves based on your user-defined trajectory. With this possibility, you can create a path whereby the audio does not move to the starting position when the audio is stopped, therefore freezing the position until the audio starts again. This is an extremely effective way to create exciting movement and space within your mix for added immersion for your listeners.
Brightness Panner employs three analyser modes to offer flexible movement for a wide range of inputs. Control the panning of your sound based on the brightness, pitch or even MIDI signals to create a greater variety of trajectories. Each mode uses the embedded frequency analysis of the input source to distribute the sounds around you in your chosen spectral field.
The brightness mode is the main function of Brightness Panner. Using intelligent onboard spectral centroid calculations, the frequency content of your audio source is analysed and set to your user-defined parameters. For example, the higher the centroid of a sound, the closer the sound source will be to the endpoint you have set within the dome.
In Pitch mode, Brightness Panner calculates the pitch of the incoming audio to pan accordingly. Using Pitch Mode will mean the higher the pitch of your incoming audio, the closer it will be on the endpoint set.
MIDI analysis mode offers the ability to perform melodies live, on stage or in the studio and have Brightness Panner adjust the stereo positioning of your notes depending on the frequency content. This makes it ideal for live performing musicians looking for a unique way to add movement and texture to melodic elements within your song.
For such a powerful and flexible tool, a sleek and innovative interface is needed. Presented via a single on-screen controller appropriately named 'The Dome', the interface of the Brightness Panner is designed to be user friendly straight out of the box, providing everything you need to make adjustments in one screen. Extracting all possible parameters and avenues for sound design in Brightness Panner is done on one screen, saving time by eliminating the need for any tedious and time-consuming menu-diving. Employing a single drag and drop design, you can customise the panning parameters within The Dome by hand to draw in your customised changes.
The surrounding parameters house the flexible sound design options that Brightness Panner has to offer, without being overly complicated. A simple two-way switch above The Dome changes the mode of operation which will correspond to a change in colour, while switches to the left will adjust the different types of movement available.
An often underappreciated aspect of the creative process, panning your instruments can have a profound impact on the energy and movement of your tracks. Energy Panner offers a unique solution for placing your tracks across the stereo field based on the intensity of each track. Using proprietary analysis algorithms, Energy Panner determines the intensity of your audio and lets you move them from stereo, Dolby Atmos, 7.1 or even Binaural outputs. Imagine moving your drums on the beat, panning your staccato synths to the attack or even spreading your vocals on the soft tail of your note and this is what Energy Panner can do for you.
With two modes of operation, Energy Panner enables complete control over your dynamic movement within your mix. Panning mode works much like a traditional panner, allowing you to move your sound source from one point to another. This is a user-defined point to point system where you can choose to move your heavy drums one from point in the stereo field to the next to create a moving drum loop that adds interest and excitement to electronic music productions.
Alternatively, the Sliding Mode offers a more nuanced approach, whereby you can create trajectory entirely to your design. Whenever the audio reaches a certain set threshold value, the sound source will move however not return to the starting point when complete. Instead, the sound source will freeze in that position until the audio exceeds the threshold again.
