I understand that a mono block sums things to mono, but if that mono block is on a path that outputs only hard left or hard right, why would it negate the output block panning?
My purpose here is to run my drums (drum machine, rather) through an amp block. Since an amp block sums everything to mono, my workaround was to create two paths: a left and a right, with each output block hard panned. This way I could put an amp block on each path, and still maintain the panning of all the individual drums that go through Stadium Native. Yet, even with this workaround, the panning is all still summed to mono.
For example: my hi-hats coming in to Stadium Native are panned hard left. With the two path setup described above, it seems to me that my high hats should still be panned hard left. But they don't - they now come out of both left and right speakers. This doesn't really make any sense to me. A path hard panned at the output stage should come out hard panned, no matter what blocks are on it.