Good catch, thanks :) But the DSP isn’t in the plugin so it should not have any effect.

Hi Juan,

Panagement has been designed to completely replace Psypan.

Purely on the binaural panner, Panagement improves on Psypan on the following directions:
– Less latency => 3 samples instead of about 40 for Psypan,
– More sound quality, the delay is rounded so that there is no pre-ringing when the pan is not modulated,
– More natural pan with an added shelf filter. If you don’t like it, you can disable it completely by turning Spectral to 0%.

Psypan had “ITD” which is still there (“Head Delay”), and Width which is still there too (“Stereo width”).

The only way in which Panagement could sound less clear than Psypan is when modulating the pan, the delay interpolation keeps less HF but is more natural sounding on the other hand (because Psypan one was ringy).

Overall the tuning is different and I would say it sounds more pleasant.

Bon soir Guillaume,
can you tell me the difference between Panagement and Psypan?
In other words, does Panagement “include” most functions of Psypan? Would it be redundant to have both in a same track?
I hope my question doesn’t sound silly.
Juan maría

Hi, Panagement developer here. I’m not sure why Panagement gets sometimes compared to A1StereoControl, it’s perhaps the name choice? Anyway in my mind they weren’t made to be competitors. A1StereoControl is about detailed control of the stereo and Panagement is about binaural panning first (delay panning, spectral panning, distance). Each does thing the other doesn’t. If you look around for binaural panners you will find the other products Panagement was made to displace :) Though there is some overlap, for example you can’t do such a plugin without stereo width because it’s always useful.

Now is there something truly new? Yes the binaural panner is tuned over and over to feel the most natural (it’s the 2nd time I make one), when not modulated there is no interpolation so no signal degradation and the distance fader is a (currently incomplete) way to get depth. It makes more sense in the Full Edition of course :) because a lot of competing products can’t be modulated.

It definitely does stuff that A1 SC doesn’t do. The distance slider won’t just reduce the volume, but also change the frequency response of the processed signal in order to emulate added distance.

I thought the Free version wouldn’t do that. OK, I’ll give it a try.

Have to agree with you. I use A1SC, but d/loaded and tried this on a mix for my next release. It it has made me rethink entirely what I am doing with that particular mix. It has more depth, spread and definition of some instruments, and not in a “plastic” way. It could be a very useful tool.

No, you’re wrong. While this may look like a simple panner, it does some complex spatial processing. It changes frequency response and amplitude of the source depending on the distance from center. A1 SC can’t do that.