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drums set to channel 10.

Events list for channel 10, on one track, CC10=0 (And CC91=0 also to avoid bleeding)
No other CC10 events for channel 10 in ANY track. No dupes, etc.

CC10 is set for all instruments in events list for each track/channel. (As are all other
appropriate CC's)

All drums, and bass guitar are CC10=0 so they are only on the left.
All other instruments are panned CC10=127 so they only play on the right.
My backing tracks are stereo. Drums/bass guitar play through one speaker
array (sub/full range/Xover) sitting center, rear stage. All other instruments
come out of 2 other speaker arrays sitting stage left and stage right.

HOWEVER . . . I cannot get the drums to only play on the left. If you look at the
L/R slider in the track bar, it clearly has moved far left. When you open the view
meter, the drums are clearly playing full left and right. And you can clearly hear
the drums through both left and right speakers.

I just took an existing track I made a bit ago. In the channel 10 events list, I put
in a series of CC10 commands every 2 seconds apart as a test. So over about 30 seconds,
every 2 seconds the CC10 changes as follows . . .

CC10=0
=64
=127
=32
=96
=64
(repeat a few times)

Now I played the track. Again, the L/R sliders move as expected.
far left, center, far right, half way between far left and center,
half way between center and far right, center, etc. - over and over,
every 2 seconds.

However . . .

Drums are clearly playing in both speakers, L & R. And the view meter
clearly shows the drums coming out of both sides. There is absolutely
no change in the sound as the tracks play.

Then I did the same thing for the bass guitar track. The bass continued
to pan left to center, to right etc. all while playing, changing every 2
seconds.

I've been using BIAB/PTAP since Rev 7. Always had the same issue. Same
with RealBand.

What I have to do is render the drums to .wav. (Which clearly ends up a
stereo track with the drums on L & R). Then split the audio track into 2
tracks, and delete the right track, and the stereo track. THEN . . . I need
to add compression, etc. to get the drums to sound right.

And of course, I now no longer have a midi file, so I can't play them through
a midi player, and end up making a .wav, and converting to MP3.

Too many steps!

Comments welcome. And as always . . . TIA!!!! Wayne