Reference Guide

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Surround Effects
Surround Mixing
What this means during mixing is that you would have to turn the analog gain to your subwoofer up
10 dB relative to the other 5 speakers, so that you hear the sound as it will be played back in home
theater systems that use bass management, and you will get your levels set right in the mix.
SONAR’s bass management system allows you to monitor how a surround project will sound with
bass management, so you don’t have to change the gain to your subwoofer during mixing. SONAR’s
bass management system only applies to monitoring, and is ignored when you export your file.
To Monitor With Bass Management
1. If necessary, open the project you want to use bass management with.
2. Select Options > Project from the SONAR menu.
The Project Options dialog appears.
3. Click the Surround tab.
4. Check the Monitor with Bass Management option.
5. Select an option in the Low Pass Cutoff (Hz) drop-down, and click OK.
See:
Surround Effects
Surround Effects
SONAR lets you use your existing stereo or mono effects as surround effects. SONAR does this
through the SurroundBridge, which automatically sets up your existing mono & stereo plug-ins so
you can patch them into surround buses (buses, not tracks).
See:
The SurroundBridge
Effect Property Pages
Effect Presets
How to Patch and Configure Surround Effects
The SurroundBridge
The SurroundBridge automatically loads enough instances of a plug-in to handle all your surround
channels. For example, if you patch a stereo effect into a surround bus that uses 5.1 SMPTE/ITU
panning, the SurroundBridge automatically assigns the Left and Right channels of the bus to
instance 1 of the plug-in, assigns the Left Surround and Right Surround channels to instance 2, the
Center channel to instance 3, and the LFE channel to instance 4. If you patch a mono effect into a
surround bus, the SurroundBridge assigns each channel to a single instance of the mono effect,
which would create six instances of the effect on a 5.1 surround bus. You can view and edit these