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Surround sound (Cubase only)
Exporting a Surround mix
When you have set up a surround mix, you can export it
with the Export Audio Mixdown function. This function ex-
ports a single selected output bus – this means that all
channels that you want to be part of the mix must be routed
to the surround output bus.
You have the following export options when doing sur-
round work:
• Export to “split” format, resulting in one mono audio file
for each surround channel.
• Export to interleaved format, resulting in a single multi-
channel audio file (e.g. a 5.1 file, containing all six sur-
round channels).
• Under Windows you can also export a 5.1 surround mix
to a file in Windows Media Audio Pro format.
This is an encoding format tailored for 5.1 surround – see “Windows
Media Audio Pro files (Windows only)” on page 425.
For more about exporting to files, see the chapter “Export
Audio Mixdown” on page 419.
Using effects in surround configurations
Cubase introduces a special surround format for VST
plug-ins, that is plug-ins that can process more than two
channels. Mix6to2 is an example of such a plug-in.
Applying a surround-aware plug-in
This is not different from applying a regular plug-in. The
only difference is that the plug-in panel may have controls
for more than two channels.
Using a stereo plug-in in a surround configuration
Normally, when you apply a stereo insert effect to a sur-
round configuration, the first two speaker channels (often
L and R) are routed through the plug-in and other chan-
nels are left unprocessed.
However, you may want to use the plug-in on other speaker
channels. This is described in the chapter “Audio effects”
on page 150.