Reference Guide

958 Surround Mixing (Producer and Studio only)
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” on page 958
“The SurroundBridge” on page 957
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” on page 958
“The SurroundBridge” on page 957
“Effect property pages” on page 958
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 effects 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 effects bin
(however, only one effect appears in the bin), with default assignments of surround channels to plug-
in instances.
Note: Mono plug-ins may not work properly when inserted in a Surround bus effect bin. A
common symptom is a Runtime error message.