Reference Guide

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Surround Effects
Surround Mixing
Effect Property Pages
How to Patch and Configure Surround Effects
For step-by-step instructions, see the following procedures.
To Patch an Effect Into a Surround Bus
• Right-click the FX bin of a surround bus and choose a mono or stereo effect from the pop-up
menu.
The SurroundBridge patches multiple instances of the effect you chose into the bus’s FX bin
(however, only one effect appears in the bin), with default assignments of surround channels to plug-
in instances.
To Change Channel Assignments for a Patched Effect
1. If the effect’s property page is not open, display it by double-clicking the name of the effect in the
surround bus’s FX bin.
2. On the SurroundBridge tab of the effect’s property page, use the drop-down menus in the Left
Input and Right Input columns to assign individual surround channels to instances of the effect.
Your assignments take effect immediately, and the names of the tabs in the property page change to
reflect the new assignments.
To Unlink Individual Effect Parameters from Other Effect Instances
1. In the property page of an effect that’s patched into a surround bus, click the Unlink Controls
button so that it turns red.
2. Make some adjustments to the automatable parameters you want to unlink (non-automatable
parameters are not linked together). You can select parameters on any tab. SONAR will
automatically capture which controls you change and unlink them from the corresponding controls
for the other surround channels.
3. When you’re finished adjusting parameters, click the Unlink Controls button again so that it’s not
red.
Now you can adjust the parameters you adjusted, without automatically adjusting the same
parameters that are on other tabs of the effect’s property page. As long as the Unlink Controls
button is not red, all other controls will remain linked.
A list of the parameters that you unlinked appears in the Unlinked Controls field on the
SurroundBridge tab, with the instance number listed in the Plug-in # column of the Unlinked
Controls field.
If you unlinked some but not all of an instance’s parameters, the instance’s check box in the
Controls Linked to Group column appears grey, with a check.
Note: Mono plug-ins may not work properly when inserted in a Surround bus effect bin. A
common symptom is a Runtime error message.