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Mono
This is a normal mono path. The signal received Track or Group will not be affected by surround panning. A
Track designated as Mono would not normally be used in a Film Stem.
Centre Mono
This causes a Track to act as a normal mono routing destination (i.e. un-affected by surround panning), but
is routed to the Centre film monitor when used in a stem. If the Centre Mono designator is used in Surround
Sound Manager then the Tracks it is applied to are auto-routed to the Centre film monitor. This can be
applied to Groups, but only has the same effect as normal Mono.
Left and Right
These are normal stereo left leg and right leg routing destinations. The signal received by a Track or Group is
only affected by left/right panning (i.e. front/back, surround left/right and divergence controls have no
effect). These should be used when Stereo is selected for Film paths in the Desk Edit Config page.
Front Centre, Front Left and Front Right
These are the surround destinations corresponding to the front speakers. Front Centre is often fed directly by
dialogue to 'lock' dialogue to the screen.
Surround Mono
This panning destination that has two different uses. In LCRS format, it is the panning destination for rear
surround. In wider formats (5.1 and 7.1) it is the destination corresponding to the sub-woofer.
Surround Left and Surround Right
These are the panning destinations for the rear left and right speakers. These are normally only used with the
wide formats (5.1 and 7.1).
Surround Centre
This is the rear centre destination (i.e. opposite front centre) used by the 6.1 format (also known as Surround
EX).
Inner Left and Inner Right
These are panning destinations that sit between Front Left/Front Centre and Front Right/Front Centre to
provide a smoother image across the front. These are normally only used with 7.1 format.
Path
Path (or signal path) is the term used to describe a discrete part of the signal flow through the console that has a
distinct input and output, either to the outside world or to another path.
In an analogue console, there is a fixed number of signal paths and they are hard-wired into different parts (or
modules) in the console.
Logic MMC is a digital system and this makes it 'assignable'. This means that the number of paths is not fixed but
is selected according to the task in hand. This is done using the utility called Desk Edit that is part of Encore.
The path type indicates the way that a path is used. For instance, Channels are the main console inputs, similar
to channel modules in an analogue console.
Play Pass
The Play Pass is the Mix/Pass that is being used to play back a previous recording of automation moves (events).
Any Mix/Pass can be selected from the current Mix/Pass Tree to be the Play Pass.
Glossary of Terms
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