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Surround Mixing
Surround Effects
assignments on the SurroundBridge tab that’s in the property page of every effect that’s patched
into a surround bus. For example, if you want a certain effect on the Left Surround channel of a
surround bus, but not on the Right Surround channel, you can assign these two channels to different
instances of the effect you’re patching by choosing options on the SurroundBridge tab of the
effect’s property page.
The SurroundBridge also links the automatable parameters of each instance so that when you
change a parameter in one instance, you automatically change the same parameter in all the other
instances. You can unlink parameters individually, or per-instance (see “How to Patch and Configure
Surround Effects” on page 701).
See:
Effect Property Pages
Effect Presets
How to Patch and Configure Surround Effects
Effect Property Pages
A single property page controls all instances of an effect that is patched into a surround bus. The
effect’s property page displays a different tab for each instance of the effect. By default, when you
change an automatable parameter on one tab of the property page, that change is duplicated on all
the tabs of the property page. However, you can “unlink” individual parameters from the other tabs
by clicking the Unlink Controls button in the effect property page, and while the button is enabled
(red), move the parameter you want to unlink, and then click the Unlink Controls button again to
disable it. Now you can change that parameter on one tab without changing the same parameter on
the other tabs. You can also link or unlink all of an instance’s parameters by using the controls on the
SurroundBridge tab.
See:
Effect Presets
The SurroundBridge
Effect Presets
You can use existing (non-surround) effects presets when you patch an effect to a surround bus—
selecting a non-surround preset sets all of a plug-in’s instances to the settings of the preset;
selecting a surround preset sets each instance’s parameters individually, according to the
information stored in the preset.
See:
How to Patch and Configure Surround Effects
The SurroundBridge