User Manual

MIXING IN SURROUND
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LFE Trim: The LFE trim control is located in the
meter pane. This control acts like a send knob for
directing signals to the LFE output. If you wish to
increase the low end presence of a track, adjust the
LFE control until the desired ‘thump’ is achieved.
Faders Mode
When first opened, mono and stereo to surround
panners display joystick mode. However, you may
switch to faders mode by clicking the mode select
toggle.
Faders mode provides accurate control in 1/10dB
increments over how much signal is sent to each
speaker in your surround matrix. For mono-to-
surround panners, you have a fader send
representing the mono input of the channel per
surround output. For stereo-to-surround panners,
you have two fader sends per surround output
representing the left and right sides of the signal.
Figure 72-5: TriPan in Faders mode
If the signal is already a multichannel signal before
it reaches the panner (as is the case when using a
multi channel plug-in like the surround delay plug-
in) your panner is automatically set to faders mode
and can not be switched to joystick mode.
Surround panners in Digital Performer are
designed to accept a mono or stereo input and
convert it to a multichannel surround signal.
Because the output of the channel is already multi
channel when it reaches the panner, you may only
use faders mode to tweak the output.
In this mode, each input is hard wired to its
corresponding surround output and each fader is a
trim.
Click the disclosure triangle
to view the meter pane.
Joystick mode Faders mode