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Jamulus enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.
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Pan / #1290

Closed reneknuvers closed 3 years ago

reneknuvers commented 3 years ago

Currently the panorama-slider is labeled “pan”. This confuses people, both because of the slider (pans are knobs), but more importantly, if one is sending mono, like in dual mono with an instrument in one channel and a talkback mic in the other, the slider controls the balance.

I had several instances where somebody became inaudible, only to find out minutes later that they played with the pan slider without knowing it. Especially when you send a single channel out in mono the current configuration yields unintended results

a solution could be to have two sliders, linkable and with each a pan knob. The two sliders would allow better control over the sent volume, and allow dual mono mode. Also visually it would be more like the mixer pane, and aligb visually with the vu-meters in the input section.

dcorson-ticino-com commented 3 years ago

This is a known problem. That the slider has to be set in the middle is non-evident for many, especially as the slider is vertical and not horizontal. Discussions are on for the next UI improvement step, for example putting this control in the audio setup so it is not on the front page to be played with. Note that input volume must be set using the operating system controls or on the external audio interface if used.

gilgongo commented 3 years ago

Hi @reneknuvers You may be interested in the discussion about UI in general here https://github.com/jamulussoftware/jamulus/discussions/1150, of which the pan slider is part.

I'll close this issue as it largely duplicates that discussion if that's OK (and would of course be good to get your input on the issues)