Reference Guide

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Panning in surround
Surround Mixing (Producer and Studio only)
To downmix a project
1. If you do not have a stereo bus in your project, create one by right-clicking in the Bus pane in the
Track view or Console view and selecting Insert Stereo Bus from the menu that appears.
2. Go to Edit > Preferences > Project - Surround, select a center downmix level and a surround
downmix level, and click OK.
3. In each of the surround buses, assign the output to a stereo bus.
4. Listen to your project through the stereo bus, and make any final adjustments to the stereo mix
by changing the values in Edit > Preferences > Project - Surround.
5. If you want to export your stereo mix, use the File > Export > Audio command. This command
obeys your downmix settings.
See:
“Panning in surround” on page 909
Panning in surround
Unlike stereo panning which sends sound to left and right speakers, surround panning means
sending sound to multiple speakers at points along a circle.
When a track/bus/send is assigned to a surround bus, the Pan control turns into a multi-dimensional
surround panner. The surround panner comes in four sizes:
• Micro. This is found in the Track view.
• Small. This is found on sends.
• Medium. This is the surround panner which is displayed in the Track Inspector and Console
view.
• Large. This is a large surround panner (see “Controlling surround panning” on page 911 for a
picture) which has additional controls, and appears when you right-click a surround panner and
choose Open Surround Panner from the pop-up menu, or double-click outside the surround
panner circle, or press ENTER when the panner has focus.