Living Fossil
Senior Member
I didn't know the Tremolo plug-in has an autopanner.
One thing to be kept in mind is the following:
Logic's Tremolo acts in the same way as Logic's "Pan" knob traditionally does (the latter with more options since some versions):
This means, when the audio is panned hard left, it means that only the left portion of a stereo file is played at that time. I.e. the stuff from the right is muted for that period of time.
That means: there is no movement in space, just a offsetted levelling of both channels.
If you want to keep your signal stereo, which means you hear both channels all the time, just with a changed panning, you need a different kind of treatment.
E.g. you can automate Logic's Direction meter.
I've set up a small test to provide some screenshots.
I made a Zebra patch with 2 oscillators: one 16' Square - panned hard left
and one 4' Saw - panned hard right.
So you can keep better apart what's shown in the pics:
A) the static sound
B) panned with Logic's Tremolo
C) panned with Logic's Direction meter via automation
(for the automation i used a little dummy region which i copied then and merged with the region)