Reference Guide

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Surround effects
Surround Mixing (Producer and Studio only)
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 effects 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.
To view a list of the automatable parameters in a particular effect, uncheck one of the Controls
Linked to Group check boxes on the SurroundBridge tab, and read the list in the Unlinked
Controls field.
To relink individual effect parameters to other effect instances
1. In the Unlinked Controls field on the SurroundBridge tab, select the parameters you want to
relink—if the parameters you want to select are adjacent, you can SHIFT-click the first and last
ones in the group. If they’re not adjacent, you can CTRL-click them individually.
2. Click the Relink Controls button.
The parameters you relinked are removed from the list.