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.<br><br><br>Thanks very much.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen West</b> <<a href="mailto:stephenwest1@lineone.net">stephenwest1@lineone.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello Thomas,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm starting to do some work with 5.1 mixing. I'm
no expert but I've got it working for me.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I run ac3jack (<a href="http://essej.net/ac3jack/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://essej.net/ac3jack/</a>) 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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">AC3Jack will also let you create a final AC3
file so you can then add the sound output to a DVD as Dolby
Digital.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm not sure if my way is the best way. Perhaps
others have a better solution but it works for me.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I hope that helps,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Stephen</font></div></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10a27d93c21d5438_1">
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:49 PM</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [ardour-users] Surround Sound Mixing</div></div>
<div><br></div>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>So, I'm hoping someone on this list can let me know
that it is indeed possible. <br><br>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.
<br><br> <br clear="all">Appologies in advance if this is all insanely stupid
questions. <br>-- <br>Thomas G.
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