Reference Guide

962 Surround Mixing (Producer and Studio only)

Exporting surround mixes

You can export your surround mixes as multi-channel PCM wave files, or as Windows Media Pro

files.

To export a surround multi-channel file

1. Use the File > Export > Audio command to open the Export Audio dialog box.

2. Type a name for your file.

3. In the Files of Type field, choose one of the following:

• If you want to create a multi-channel wave file, choose RIFF Wave.

• If you want to create a multi-channel Windows Media file, choose Windows Media Advanced

Streaming Format.

4. In the Source Category field, choose Buses, Main Outputs, or Entire Mix.

5. Choose the bus or buses in the Source Buses/Tracks field that you want to export your mix

from.

6. Choose Multichannel in the Channel Format field.

7. Choose any other options you want such as Sample Rate and Bit Depth.

8. If you want to save the settings you created in the Export Audio dialog box, type a name for

them in the Preset window and then click the floppy disk icon that’s next to the window.

9. Click Export.

SONAR exports your project in the file format you selected.

Standard AVI audio codecs do not support multichannel audio

None of the standard AVI audio codecs support multichannel audio. When exporting multichannel

audio to an AVI video file, do not select an audio codec (no compression), or use a codec that is

known to support multichannel audio.