[ardour-users] Fw: Surround Sound Mixing
Aaron Trumm
aaron at nquit.com
Thu Mar 23 15:19:44 PST 2006
yeah this is really helpful - I'm doing 8 channel mixes here at CCRMA
and next i'm going to want to translate them to 5.1...i didn't exactly
know where to start...
thanks :)
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:23 +0000, Stephen West wrote:
> It's a pleasure. I've only done it for a personal hobby not anything
> commercial, but I'm sure the principles are the same.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas G. Willis
> To: ardour-users-ardour.org at lists.ardour.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [ardour-users] Fw: Surround Sound Mixing
>
>
> Hey Stephen thanks that gives me enough info to help my friend
> to see if it's indeeed possible with his hardware. he has an
> ac3 encoder and all that, and I'd love to figure out how to do
> this myself anyway.
>
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>
> On 3/23/06, Stephen West <stephenwest1 at lineone.net> wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> I'm starting to do some work with 5.1 mixing. I'm no
> expert but I've got it working for me.
>
> I create 5 busses called 'Left', 'Centre', 'Right',
> etc. I cound that creating a master bus with six
> channels didn't work for me as the sound directed to
> one channel would leak into another channel and could
> be heard from somewhere you didn't want. Also, you
> can't automate the panning for six channels.
>
> I run ac3jack (http://essej.net/ac3jack/) and connect
> with JACK, the 'Left' bus to the AC3Jack 'Left'
> channel, etc. I can then output via the optical output
> to my surround sound decoder. As far as I can see
> AC3Jack is legal in the UK but I'm not sure about
> elsewhere, owing to Intellectual Property laws. If you
> didn't want to use AC3Jack you could buy a six channel
> card and output to six speakers instead, connecting
> your busses to the relevant outputs of the card.
>
> I create the sound effect in a track and output to the
> relevant bus, e.g., Left or Right, etc., or more than
> one bus if required.
>
> AC3Jack will also let you create a final AC3 file so
> you can then add the sound output to a DVD as Dolby
> Digital.
>
> I'm not sure if my way is the best way. Perhaps others
> have a better solution but it works for me.
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas G. Willis
> To: ardour-users-ardour.org at lists.ardour.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:49 PM
> Subject: [ardour-users] Surround Sound Mixing
>
>
> OK, #1 I have no clue about this stuff and what's
> involved. #2 I have a friend that is doing fairly well
> for himself doing sound work for movies and is somehow
> doing surround mixing outside of pro-tools.
>
> Basically he asked me if surround mixing is possible
> in ardour because he doesn't want to upgrade to the
> uber expensive protools version that allows him to do
> that.
>
> I did a bit of research and came to the conclusion
> that it's either theoretically possible or a feature
> that isn't stable yet.
>
> So, I'm hoping someone on this list can let me know
> that it is indeed possible.
>
> I saw that you can choose from 5 to 8 outputs in
> mastering and I can assume that that would work for
> surround but without anyway for me to test this myself
> I'm wondering how one would route a track to the
> subwoofer vs the center channel vs the front r/l vs
> rear r/l.
>
>
> Appologies in advance if this is all insanely stupid
> questions.
> --
> Thomas G. Willis
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