Panning Piano Stereo

[sprazer]

Is there a way to adjust the pan of piano stereo sound on NS4?

My monitor speaker setup position is limited because of my room size, the speakers have to sit way to the left and right not in front of me. It's really weird when when im playing the piano, I hear the the low notes from the left and and high notes from the right. It sounds like I'm hearing 2 pianos from my left and right, it doesn't sound authentic at all, It's crazy : ( ((((((((

I hope I could find some help or workaround here, I have been looking over the internet and searching in the manual. No luck.

[FZiegler]

As you have Pan as an effect, you can indeed adjust the panning if you set the frequency to 0.

But that's probably not what you are looking for: If you want to adjust the stereo width, there is no setting for that.

But it will probably not only affect piano sounds, but all of them. When I set studio monitors up for my home piano (Viscount Legend '70s), I got the same problem. Only solution: Get the two monitors closer together. Seemed to me as if the old HiFi rule for the sweet spot still applies: the stereo triangle. By the way, it improved the sound to turn the monitors adjusted directly towards my ears.

When playing on stage, I've got the monitors in my back. Which wasn't hard to get used to.

[sprazer]

But that's probably not what you are looking for: If you want to adjust the stereo width, there is no setting for that.

This is insane to be honest for the keyboard at this price and doesn't have this feature. I mean it should be more flexible, because in live situations the speakers can be at the opposite side of the room and the people in the left will not hear the high notes well??? what a bummer.

Thank you very much for your reply tho.

[FZiegler]

What you still have, is a widening of stereo impression via the unison effect and a reduction to zero through a mono output channel (with piano sounds and stereo effects adapted to sounding best in mono). Plenty of options for a thing that is not an audio workstation.

[Mighty Motif Max]

My suggestion would be to get a small cheap mixer and pan the L/R channels closer together, to taste.

[maxpiano]

My suggestion would be to get a small cheap mixer and pan the L/R channels closer together, to taste.

This

[cphollis]

My suggestion would be to get a small cheap mixer and pan the L/R channels closer together, to taste.

Exactly.

The Nords are performance keyboards, and are intended to be connected through some sort of mixer.

[FZiegler]

I wasn't sure if this works. Nice to hear.

[sprazer]

Thank you so much guys, I guess I will try to get to the Unison widening tonight and if doesn't work , I'll get a cheap mixer device then

[FZiegler]

The Unison thing is (maybe) the opposite of what you wanted and will affect your sound - nothing that solves your issue. You can directly go with the mixer. But watch to get one that allows panning - the very small ones sometimes don't support it.

Alternative: extra stands for your monitors that allow a flexible distance between both.