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Surround sound (Cubase only)
Resetting all parameters
[Alt]/[Option]-click the Reset button in the lower right cor-
ner of the plug-in panel to reset all controls to their default
values.
Constant power
“What goes in, must come out again.” This principle can
be taken literally with regard to the SurroundPanner V5. It
means that the power of a source channel is identical to
the power of the corresponding output signal.
The advantage of this is that the overall volume as per-
ceived by the listener (= the power) is always the same,
regardless of the signal panning, e. g. when you move the
sound source in the pan area, disable specific speaker
channels, or use the divergence controls.
Exporting a surround mix
When you have set up a surround mix, you can choose to
export it using the Export Audio Mixdown function.
You have the following export options when working with
a surround configuration:
• 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 surround
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 Me-
dia Audio Pro files (Windows only)” on page 491.
For details about exporting to files, see the chapter “Export
Audio Mixdown” on page 484.