User Manual

BUNDLES
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To swap the left right output of a stereo bundle,
drag the bundle tile onto its opposite channel.
Stereo bundles can be split over non-adjacent
destination pairs.
You can double-click a box to move the tiles in that
row directly to the box (without having to drag
them).
BUNDLES AND SURROUND SOUND
Surround output bundles can be rewired quickly. If
you find you have mis-wired the physical outputs
of your monitoring system, it may be easier to
switch your output bundle than to move the
physical connections, particularly if the cables are
in a hard to reach spot.
Digital Performer allows you to easily mix for
different surround formats by modifying the type
of bundle. If you need to deliver a 7.1 version of a
5.1 mix, all you need to do is set your primary
output bundle from 5.1 to 7.1.
Figure 14-7: The Bundles window allows you to change the behavior
of a bundle with a pull down menu.
Audio Bundles can be created that share outputs
with a surround bundle so you can directly assign
audio to those outputs. For example, as shown in
Figure 14-1 on page 123, you can create stereo
bundles for the front and rear speaker pairs in a 5.1
mix and mono bundles for the center and LFE
channels. This allows you to send audio directly to
those outputs without using a surround panner.
For more information on Surround Sound, see
chapter 72, “Mixing in Surround” (page 847).
THE INSTRUMENTS TAB
Some plug-ins and ReWire-compatible
applications provide multiple audio outputs. You
can use the Instruments tab to route them anywhere
in the Digital Performer mixing environment. For
details, see “Multiple audio outputs” on page 148.