User Guide

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Sonic Studio Strix Series User Guide
English
How it works:
The channel mixer window contains 8 vertical sliders allowing you to ne tune each
audio channel by applying a gain between +18 dB and -36 dB. It allows you to
apply a gain on a specic audio channel, not to change its volume. This way, even
if you apply a maximum negative gain on a channel (-36 dB), you can still hear
some sound if you are using high volume.
This feature is modifying input channels. This means that on this window, you can
only impact the original les’ channels, regardless of the output format you chose.
For example:
• if you are playing a 7.1-channel le in stereo mode, the channel mixer will
allow you to apply a gain on each 8 channels of the original le, even if the
output is only stereo;
• if you are playing a stereo le in 7.1-channel mode, the channel mixer will
only impact the 2 original stereo channels.
Notes:
• The Channel Mixer does not allow applying gains on encoded les using
Dolby or DTS formats. We do not decode Dolby or DTS format les and
hence when undecoded we do not apply gains on it via the channel mixer.
This means that the gains will not be usable when:
- the les are played in a player that doesn’t decode Dolby or DTS
formats (WMP for example),
- the output device is SPDIF (because SPDIF has only stereo inputs).
• If the player is able to decode the le (Power DVD can do it), channel mixer
will be usable, regardless of the input format (SPDIF or other).
This way, if you are playing a multi-channel le with Power DVD, set up
Power DVD in multi-channel and use the channel mixer. It will work for all
the channels.
• If you are playing a multi-channel le with Windows Media Player, it will not
work, because WMP is not able to decode DTS or Dolby les.
• You must use a non-encoded le to test (MP3, WAV, etc).
• Difference between gain and volume: a gain is a positive or negative boost
that you apply on a specic channel. The volume is a global info which will
impact all the channels of the le.