Instruction Manual

668 Surround Mixing
Configuring SONAR for Surround Mixing
“Surround Main” controls which hardware outputs receive the signal that
the track or bus sends to the “Surround Main.”
SONAR saves the surround settings you choose on the Surround tab of the
Project Options dialog with your project, including your downmixing
parameters. If you have some particular settings you might use again, you
can save a group of settings as a preset (except for downmixing
parameters—you can change these, but they aren’t saved in presets). To
save a group of settings as a preset, type a name in the Presets field and
then click the Disk icon that’s to the right of the field. When you want to use
this preset in a project, just choose it from the Presets dropdown menu.
To Choose a Surround Format and Set Sound Card
Outputs
1. Use the Options-Project command.
The Project Options dialog appears.
2. Click the Surround tab.
3. Select a format from the Surround Format dropdown.
The diagram to the right of the Surround Format menu changes to
illustrate the speaker placement of the format that you chose.
4. In the Output column, assign each channel to a sound card output.
Note: Consumer-grade sound cards, such as Audigy or SoundBlaster,
typically reserve output 4 for the LFE channel. Check your sound card
manual for details.
5. Click OK.
Note: Take a moment to make sure your speakers are correctly hooked up
to the corresponding outputs before you attempt any playback. See the
diagram in the Project Options dialog for the speaker setup. If you are not
sure what the abbreviations for the speaker names are, see Surround
Basics.
See:
Surround Buses
Surround Buses
You have to have at least one surround bus in your project to use surround
sound. A surround bus differs from a stereo bus in that it simply has more