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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:22:08PM -0800, Eric Kampman wrote:
> I looked up "pan law" and understand that center should be

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> -3 db (or some say -3.5 or 4.5, whatever) given unity at

> panned hard L or R. It was said that in an ideal room I

> should be down -6 db in the center.  That would mean linearly

> transitioning from unity gain to completely off as one pans,

> I *think* (-6 db in the center = .5).

The ideal value depends on frequency, in theory -6 dB of LF

and -3 dB for HF, with a gradual transition at around 500 Hz

or so.
> I played around this for awhile and using the sum of the square of sin and cos etc I got an f(t) of

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>

> f(t) = cos( pi * t / 2 )        (details available on request)

>

> So L(t) = cos(t * pi / 2) and R(t) = cos((1 - t) * pi / 2)

>

> And that seems to work out correctly. 

It is correct.
> Is this equal power version worth spending the processing cycles on?

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> I intend to make pan envelope and LFO controllable so it's not going

> to be the case that the pan value can be thought of as relatively static.

If you are concerned about the CPU use, consider this:
panning value x = [-1..+1]
L_gain = (1 - x) * (0.7 + 0.2 * x)

R_gain = (1 + x) * (0.7 - 0.2 * x)
which will be -3.1 dB at the center. You can modify this

modyfying the 0.7 and 0.2 constants, for example
L_gain = (1 - x) * (0.65 + 0.15 * x)

R_gain = (1 + x) * (0.65 - 0.15 * x)
will produce -3.75 dB, and
L_gain = (1 - x) * (0.6 + 0.1 * x)

R_gain = (1 + x) * (0.6 - 0.1 * x)
will produce -4.4 dB, etc.
Ciao,
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