Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual

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Routing
You can use the Routing rack in the MixConsole to route audio-related tracks to 
output busses or group channels with a surround configuration.
RELATED LINKS
Setting Up Direct Routing on page 344
Routing channels to individual surround channels
If you want to place an audio source in one separate speaker channel, you can route 
it directly to that speaker channel. This is useful for premixed material or 
multi-channel recordings that do not...

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Input bus configuration
To work with surround sound in Cubase, it is often not necessary to configure a 
surround format input bus. You can record audio files via standard inputs, and easily 
route the resulting audio channels to surround outputs at any stage. You can also 
directly import multi-channel files of a specific surround format onto audio tracks of 
the same format.
You should add a surround input bus in the following...

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• In the Inspector, a miniature surround pan control can be displayed in the 
Surround Pan section.
This panner view offers click and drag panning as well as speaker channel 
icons reflecting the solo/mute and deactivation states.
NOTE
In all miniature panner views you can scale down your movements by holding the 
[Shift] key while moving the sound source. This allows you to make fine adjustments.
RELATED LINKS
Using the MixConvert V6...

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The plug-in panel
Double-click on any of the miniature panner controls to open the plug-in panel in a 
separate window.
The SurroundPanner V5 plug-in offers numerous possibilities to position a mono or 
stereo sound source. If you work visually oriented, you can simply drag the sound 
source around in the pan area. To help you execute very exact movements you can 
use modifier keys to limit the movement direction (e.
 g. for straight...

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Positioning signals in the pan area
In the pan area, you see a graphical representation of the sound source, with the left 
and right channels shown in yellow and red.
Here, you can position the sound source using the mouse:
• By clicking at the desired position in the pan area.
When you release the mouse button, the sound source jumps to that position 
(with the positioning handle, i.
 e. the circle located in the center of the sound...

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Speaker channels – Solo and Mute vs. Disabling
The speakers that are distributed around the surround field represent the output 
configuration. You can disable speakers or solo/mute them.
This speaker is muted.
This speaker is soloed.
This speaker is disabled.
• [Alt]/[Option]-click on a speaker symbol  to 
 disable that speaker (the speaker 
symbol is grayed out) so that no audio  will be routed to this surround channel. 
The signal that...

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• By clicking on one of the icons above the pan area, the corresponding 
positioning mode is activated persistently. That way you do not have to keep 
the corresponding modifier key pressed all the time.
To deactivate the selected positioning mode, switch back to standard mode.
The following modes are available:
Panning the left and right channels independently with the mouse
At the top right of the plug-in window you will find the button...

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• When panning in independent positioning mode, automation data is written 
for several parameters. Due to this, special automation rules apply.
• Automation data for the independent positioning mode is always written for 
the complete sound source, not for individual channels. This means it is not 
possible to record automation for one stereo channel and then add 
automation for the other stereo channel...

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NOTE
The Overview Mode is only used for visualizing the complex scenarios that you can 
create with the SurroundPanner V5. The actual panning is done in the standard 
view. Therefore, the speakers are visible in this mode, but cannot be soloed/muted 
or disabled.
Left-right and front-rear panning
These two controls are used to pan the sound source from left to right and front to 
rear, and vice versa.
NOTE
This is the same as restricting...

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Orbit Center
This is the main control that allows you to perform the rotation.
Radius
When using the Orbit Center control, the Radius encoder allows you to 
control the distance of the sound source from the center of the surround field 
(without changing the angle).
An example:
a) Radius = 141.4
b) Radius = 116.5
The gray circle shows the theoretical path of the sound source when orbiting 
the center. Since the sound source cannot leave the...