Dear Group
Somehow the pan parameter has rare to no effect on stereo samples - do I make/think something wrong?
I guess you tagged the tread wrong, DT1 can’t use stereo samples.
Do you use a DT2?
Edit : sorry my bad there’s no DT2 tag.
Are you monitoring in mono?
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For stereo samples, DT2 adjusts the relative volume of the two sides—if a tambourine is on the right side of the recording, panning left doesn’t bring the right side to the left, just turns it down. Is that what you’re seeing?
No, I monitor it with headphones…
Are you using any sort of adaptor for the headphones?
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Thank you for that. This could be the reason. I use a stereo sample of a monophonic synth. If I try to pan it I can barley hear a effect.
I already wrote Elektron for adding a parameter to decrease the stereo width of a sample… this would really increase the mixing ability of the DT 2, what do you think about this?
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Just a normal to mini…
Is it a stereo adaptor you’re using? That catches me out all the time. Does it have two rings on it or just one?
The issue you mention is one of these I am really aware of… TRS for 2 x asymmetrical in thie case…
but thank you!
If you pan all the way left with the sound running solo, you still have sound coming out of the right ear? Can you record the audio of you doing the manual panning full negative or full positive into a daw or a zoom recorder or something? You need to establish whether or not the problem is the audio coming out of the headphone jack, or the audio track itself. Guessing about it will get you nowhere.
Like Claid is saying, I’d also recommend that you try another headphone adapter just to be sure because I’ve had problems with more than one. Look at that before suspecting the headphones especially if you record audio out of the L/R and you hear panning in effect. The nature of panning is balancing sound from left to right, if it’s full left there will be no audio from the right side unless there is a failure of hardware or user error and right now there isn’t enough evidence to point in either direction.
On a stereo sample, PAN acts like a balance, so the effect is exactly the same as a mon sample that you pan left or right.
The problem is somewhere else, I presume.
Have you checked twice your cables?
It happens that I plug one cable in the headphones out 
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