Instruction Manual

670 Surround Mixing
Configuring SONAR for Surround Mixing
To Assign a Track to a Surround Bus or Surround Main
• Click in the track’s output field and select a surround bus, the Surround
Main, or New Surround Bus as an output.
See:
Downmixing
Downmixing
Downmixing is a way of previewing your surround project in stereo only.
There are various cases where surround is not available and it may be that
someone plays your project in stereo only. A radio broadcast is a good
example. Downmixing is a valuable tool for determining if your project will
sound good in stereo. However, you can export your project in stereo, and
SONAR uses your downmix settings to create your exported file.
The following table lists the downmixing settings in the Surround tab of the
Project Options dialog and gives a brief description of what the setting
does. You can also manually enter other values besides these preset ones:
Track to hardware output No change
Stereo bus to stereo bus No change
Stereo bus to surround bus or the
Surround Main
Stereo left channel is routed to Left
channel of surround format; stereo
right channel is routed to Right channel
of surround format. You can change
the routing to other surround channels
by using the surround panner on the
stereo bus.
Stereo bus to hardware output No change
Surround bus to stereo bus Surround channels are downmixed to
stereo
Surround bus to surround bus or
the Surround Main
No change
Signal Flow Result