Instruction Manual

686 Surround Mixing
Importing Surround Mixes
The parameters you unlinked appear in the Unlinked Controls field, with the
instance number listed in the Plug-in # column of the Unlinked Controls
field.
Note: to relink all of an instance’s parameters, recheck its Controls Linked
to Group checkbox.
To Disable an Instance
• On the SurroundBridge tab of the effect’s property page, uncheck the
Enable checkbox of the plug-in you want to disable. The instance’s tab
becomes greyed-out when you do this. You can re-enable the instance
by rechecking the checkbox.
The Enable checkbox is a separate bypass system from the Bypass button
that is on the instance’s individual property tab. Disabling an instance by
using the Enable checkbox lightens the CPU load by taking the instance out
of the processing path. The Bypass button on the instance’s property tab
does not change color when you click the Enable checkbox, because it is a
separate system. The Bypass button is automatable in some plug-ins.
To Save a Preset
1. Set the effect’s parameters the way you want them.
2. In the Presets field of the effect’s property page, type a name for the
preset, and click the floppy disk icon that’s just right of the Presets field.
Saving a preset of an effect that’s patched into a surround bus creates a
surround preset, which includes channel assignments and parameter
linkage settings.
Importing Surround Mixes
SONAR imports multi-channel (surround) files as a group of mono files. If
the files contain information that labels the speaker location of each
channel in the file, SONAR copies these labels to the clips in your audio
tracks, but does not pan the tracks according to these labels. This is
because you may not have your SONAR project set to the same multi-
channel format as the imported project.
You can import the following types of multi-channel files:
• Multi-channel PCM wave files (.
WAV)
• Dolby AC3 encoded files. (.
AC3)—these are encoded for Dolby
surround. You will need to install an AC3 decoder filter such as this
one: http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net in order to be able to decode these