How do I pan stereo fields?

[registereduser]

I'd like to pan, and by that I don't mean to increase and decrease the left and right stereo field's volume, but rather pan what I hear in the left to the right, and from the right to the left seamlessly, back and forth. How do I do this? Thanks!!

[steve]

If you're really using Audacity 1.2 I'd highly recommend that you upgrade to Audacity 1.3.13. You can get it here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows

There are several different plug-ins for making smooth panning effects http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... t_Plug-ins
You may like to try several of them and let us know which ones you like. Personally I think there are two many panning effects and I would prefer if there were just one (or two) that provided the features that people are likely to want. Your feedback could be a useful contribution toward any future decision about which features to keep, which to discard (if any) and any missing features that need to be added.

Note that these panning effects require the audio to be on a stereo track.
If you have a mono track, you can make it into a stereo track by duplicating the track (select the track, then Ctrl+D), then click on the name of the upper track and from the drop down menu select "Make Stereo Track".

You can also achieve panning by splitting a stereo track, then applying different envelopes to each.