panning trick

[Haible Juergen]

I don't know if this is an *old* trick or not. Just wanted to share what
I 
have just recently discovered:

Panning a signal with a sine wave doesn't sound much like rotating
speakers
at all.
Try this instead: 
A sine wave LFO is patched into a soft limiter which shapes a rounded
rectangle
wave from the sine. (*Very* rounded. Try 50% overdrive of a pair of
diodes or
a differential pair ...)
Then this rounded rectangle goes into a 1pole HP filter, with a cutoff
frequency of
approx. 1Hz.
The output of the HP then modulates the panorama of an audio signal.

If you are lucky to have a Quadrature LFO (A LFO that produces sine and
cosine waves at the same time), you can also modulate the volume and
pitch
of the signal. The doppler effect makes the whole thing a bit more
realistic.

But even without this, just with a simple LFO and the overdrive / HPF
method,
you'll be surprised how realistic it sounds!

JH.