@phasingtomsolo
Thanks for the extensive research into panning, will dive into it at a later moment.
For now, I discovered what caused the problem of the distorted recording: I was putting my effects on the individual tracks directly. Now, I put my effects on separate tracks and routed them to the instrument tracks. Do you perhaps know why the signal gets distorted when putting effects directly on the tracks?
Another thing I noticed, is that when playing my beat, I hear the ‘effected’ signal as well as the original (dry) signal both at the same time. I guess this has to do something with monitoring? Do you know how to turn off the dry signal so I only hear the effected signal? Have been playing around with the tracks monitoring but couldn’t figure it out.
I also noticed, in the routing window of the effects, there is a fader (when I right-click on it, it says ‘Pan Law’) which controls the panning of the track. It seems to work fine for panning the track. For now it would seem to serve my purpose, which is just placing the drums within the audio spectrum. Although I realize that this way the panning is done in Reaper and not from the Digitakt, what are the disadvantages of panning the instruments this way?