User Manual

Preparing for Audio Output
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3. Click the Mix Mode Selection Menu button, and select a type of output.
- Select Stereo to mix the monitored audio tracks into a stereo pair (two paired mono
channels) with applied pan effects.
- Select Mono to map all the monitored tracks to a pair of mono channels, with all
channels panned to center and pan effects bypassed.
- Select Direct to map monitored tracks directly to up to sixteen channels of output
(depending on how many audio output channels are currently enabled in your hardware
configuration). By default, Direct maps all audio tracks in numerical sequence to
existing output channels. Mono tracks are mapped to single output channels, and stereo
tracks are mapped to pairs of output channels. You can remap a track to any channel by
clicking a Channel Assignment menu and by selecting another channel.
Direct out ignores pan effects.
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You cannot map a mono track to a channel pair or a stereo track to a single channel.
If you want to output 16 channels, click the “Allow 16 channel output” button. For more
information, see “Enabling 16-Channel Audio Output” on page 1058.
4. (Option) Depending on your type of output, you can make additional adjustments:
- By default, Stereo directs the mixed tracks to mono output channels 1 and 2. You can
also direct mixed tracks to output channels 3 & 4, 5 & 6, or 7 & 8.
- If you select Direct Out, you can select All or Timeline from the “All or Timeline Track
Maps” menu
- All lets you preset values for all possible audio tracks, with each track treated as a
mono track.
- Timeline lets you assign output channels to the tracks monitored in the Timeline,
with multichannel stereo pairs mapped by default to channel pairs.
Click the Reset button to reassign the tracks to the default channels that are currently
available. You might need to reset the defaults track mappings if your hardware
configuration has changed.
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If you want to map output channels to audio tracks not listed in the Output Track Maps area,
click the Which Set of Track Maps button to display other available audio tracks. The maximum
number of available tracks is 24.