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Say you want to do 5.1 surround sound playback from a DVD; to do this, you need a single six-

channel wave device. For instance, you could set up your wave-out devices like this:

• Layla20 1-6 Analog Out

• Layla20 7-8 Analog Out

• Layla20 9-10 Analog Out

• Layla20 1-2 Digital Out

Now you have only four wave devices – a six channel device addressing the first six analog

outputs, two stereo devices addressing each of the next two analog outs, and finally a stereo

device for the two digital outputs.

This is the basic idea of Super Channel – it allows you to optimally configure your wave devices

for your specific application.

Wave devices can be configured from the console; please refer to the console section of this

document for details.

When would I want to use Super Channel?

Super Channel is useful in the following situations:

- You are using Cakewalk’s SONAR or some other application that supports multichannel

wave devices. SONAR works more efficiently with a multichannel wave device than with

multiple stereo wave devices. We recommend that you decide how many output and

input channels you want to use from SONAR and then configure the wave devices

accordingly.

- You want to do surround sound playback from an app such as Windows Media Player,

WinDVD, or PowerDVD. Please refer to the surround sound setup example, below, for

more information.

- You want to hide channels that you aren’t using. This is especially useful on Windows

2000, where you can only have ten wave devices. Super Channel lets you collapse

unused channels into a single wave device.

Super Channel has no effect on software that uses the ASIO or GSIF interfaces. In addition,

Super Channel is not supported for PureWave mode; there’s no real need for it.