fruityloops and mono/stereo panning..

[gkowal]

Hey guys ok I am totaly confused..i read hundreds of posts about productions and stuff and i am confused now..

Currently i am using Fruityloops with many VST instruments plugins and drum samples. I am confused for overall panning thing... example i have a KICK in a mono. when i open it in Fruityloops do i still have it in the mono or stereo? i do have left and right channel jumping when i am playing it so i figure it must be stereo.. but ok it is said kick should be panned centrally and let say hihats about 20 degrees to the sides..now when i pann hihats do i open 2 hihats and pan one 20 to left and other 20 to right or do i open one and just pan it 20 to left..when i do the second wouldn`t it sound louder in left speaker then in right one? that means i moved only the volume not actually panning right? i think that in order to pann things then i open 2 hihats and pann one 20 to left and other 20 to right and now they are stereo or is it the same thing as opening one hihat and placing it 20 to left.. can somebody explain it to me???????? i`m going crazy....

[miccontrol]

I think all the samples in FruityLoops are stereo unless you get them from an outside source. I havent been using FL much lately but I used to do exactly that; double up the hi-hats and pan one to the left and one to the right, gives it that bouncy back and forth feeling. Hope that helped.

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