hello everyone,

1) if you do a pan inside the daw, does that affect the "math" of the
audio? i'm guessing it is the equivalent of two fader moves; you
increase the gain on one side, and decrease it on the other. so that
must mean a recalculation, correct?

2) let's say instead of "bouncing to disk" or "rendering" the stereo
mix in the daw, you send the playback 2-mix in real time out to
another computer via spdif and record it. does that produce a
different final stereo file in terms of the math?

thanks for any insights