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Rack output is 5.1.
Plugins Can Change the Rack Size
While it’s true that the number of channels in a rack is defined by its input, certain plugins increase the channel
count of the chainer. In a rack that is configured as stereo, stereo plugins will be used to populate the chainer
simple. Certain plugins, however, allow you to increase or decrease the number of rack channels. The most common
examples are mono-to-stereo reverb plugins, but there are also larger-format up-mixing and down-mixing plugins. In
the example below, a stereo-to-5.1 plugin is inserted in the middle of the chainer. All plugins earlier in the signal flow
(above) will remain stereo. Plugins later in the chain are 5.1, and the rack output is in one of the 5.1 formats.
Stereo rack meters
All plugins in the
chainer after the
stereo-to-5.1
plugin can only
be 5.1 format.
Stereo-to-5.1 plugin
Stereo plugins
Moving an up-mixing or down-mixing plugin up or down the
chain will affect the plugins that are inserted after it. If, for
example, you move a stereo-to-5.1 plugin to a slot above
an existing stereo plugin, the stereo plugin will become
disabled.