I want my Sound to come from either the right or the left side, depending on where it is created.
For that I can use the Pan property, which is defined as a float from -1 (left) to 1 (right).
Or so I thought.
Art.SoundGunShot.Play(0.05f, 0f, 1f);
is no different than
Art.SoundGunShot.Play(0.05f, 0f, -1f);
both play at the same volume on both speakers. I know it’s not a windows configuration / hardware thing, I have stereo sound in all other relevant applications.
I think, this problem is have since the beginning of the MonoGame. But my memories, if you load an existing stereo sound, and you touch in any way the Pan parameter, it immediately switches to mono, but I tried it a long time ago.
You can try to create two pieces of stereo sound. The point is that you need a proper sound editing software. The sound one, you need to change of the Pan value to the left side, and the sound two to the right side. In the end you have two stereo sound the same, but one is hear on just the left side, and the other just to the right side. Then you need to load this two sound into MonoGame, playing at the same time, and Volume values trick is to get the right stereo widening reach.
And do not use the extended play(…) method, because if you setting the Pan parameter, your stereo sound is forcibly closed to center (mono).
You just set the sounds parameters without Pan from multi line:
I 100% agree, sounds are unfortunately under-considered in game dev (see how much visual tutorial are available for shaders, 3D and visuals, compare to sound tutorials) despite being as much as important (try a game without sound, one with only music, one with full sound, it’s obvious).
