Calrec Apollo - PANNING

Routing Audio
116 APOLLO
Digital Broadcast Production Console
PANNING
Apollo provides flexible and adaptive
panning controls which change to
reflect the width of both the source
and destination paths.
It is important to note that the pan controls
for a given path do not actually alter the
panning of the path itself. They do in
fact alter the pan position of that path’s
contribution to its destination bus. It is
therefore possible to have different pan
positions set when sending to multiple
buses, for example to an Aux, Track and
Main simultaneously.
There is a shared pan position for the
channel when it is routed to Main and
group buses. There is another pan
position for the channel when it is routed
to Tracks. Finally, the channel has an
individual pan position for each Aux bus it
is sent to.
Multiple Pan Positions per Path
When in the SENDS-ROUTES layout of
Assign mode, the right hand button cells
contain three buttons labelled:
• PAN > MN/GRP
• PAN > TRK
• PAN > AUX
These buttons determine which pan
position the pan controls are affecting for
the assigned path.
As there is one pan position that applies
to all mains and groups, and another
position applying to all tracks, these can
be controlled by selecting either PAN >
MN/GP or PAN > TRK respectively.
Pushing the PAN > AUX button allows
control over the pan position for each
individual Aux send. The send currently
being controlled is indicated by a number
in the graphic above the button.
To change the pan controls to alter a
different aux send, push down on the
required aux rotary control. The number
in the graphic should now update to show
the affected aux send.
Controls
Depending on the width of the current
path, and the width of the destination
bus, different pan controls will be made
available on the surface. For example
when sending a mono path to a mono bus,
there will be no controls available. When
sending a mono path to a surround bus, a
great deal more controls will be presented
that allow control over mono placement in
a surround field.
The complete range of controls is
described here:
Front Pan
Front pan allows positioning of the signal
in the L and R speakers. The button next
to the Front Pan rotary control switches
the pan position in or out.
C only
C ONLY sets the signal to appear only in
the centre speaker. It effectively overrides
all left and right pan positions.
Front L-C-R
Pushing the FRONT L-C-R button
switches the FRONT PAN control
between L-R panning and L-C-R panning.
Front Divergence
With FRONT L-C-R switched in, the
spread of the signal can range from fully
converged in the C speaker, through equal
level in L, C and R, right the way to full
divergence with no level in the C speaker
and full level in the L and R speakers.
The button next to the divergence rotary
control switches the divergence position
in or out.
Front-Rear pan
FRONT-REAR PAN varies the position
of the signal between the front and rear
speakers. The L and R position in the
front and rear speakers is independent
and can be controller separately with the
FRONT PAN and REAR PAN controls.
The signal is moved from the front pan
position through to the rear pan position.
Rear Pan
Rear pan allows the left to right position of
the signal to be set in the rear speakers.
This is independent from the front pan
position and can be switched in or out
using the button next to the rotary control.
Note, with a Joystick active on the same
path the Rear Pan is disabled.
LFE
LFE varies the level sent to the LFE
speaker. When this control is switched
out, no signal is sent to the LFE.
Non LFE
The level sent to all channels other than
the LFE channel can be varied with the
NON LFE control. When this control is
switched out and the signal is panned to
one or more channels other than the LFE,
the signal is sent at full level.