Reference Guide

994 Surround Mixing (Producer and Studio only)
Surround effects
Effect presets
You can use existing (non-surround) effects presets when you patch an effect to a surround bus—
selecting a non-surround preset sets all of a plug-in’s instances to the settings of the preset;
selecting a surround preset sets each instance’s parameters individually, according to the
information stored in the preset.
See:
“How to patch and configure surround effects” on page 994
“The SurroundBridge” on page 992
“Effect property pages” on page 993
How to patch and configure surround effects
For step-by-step instructions, see the following procedures.
To patch an effect into a surround bus
• Right-click the effects bin of a surround bus and choose a mono or stereo effect from the pop-up
menu.
The SurroundBridge patches multiple instances of the effect you chose into the bus’s effects bin
(however, only one effect appears in the bin), with default assignments of surround channels to plug-
in instances.
To change channel assignments for a patched effect
1. If the effect’s property page is not open, display it by double-clicking the name of the effect in the
surround bus’s effects bin.
2. On the SurroundBridge tab of the effect’s property page, use the drop-down menus in the Left
Input and Right Input columns to assign individual surround channels to instances of the effect.
Your assignments take effect immediately, and the names of the tabs in the property page change to
reflect the new assignments.
Note: Mono plug-ins may not work properly when inserted in a Surround bus effect bin. A
common symptom is a Runtime error message.