5.1 support

subbasshead · Post by **subbasshead** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:18 am

first of a few posts but this is top of my list:

- 5.1 (or quad or 7.1) panners on each mono or stereo track...
- 5.1 (or quad or 7.1) mix bus
- 5.1 (or quad or 7.1) bounce destination

Bran richards · Post by **Bran richards** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:19 am

Man i get a dreading feeling this wont happen for quite a while.

But shit yes would love to see 5.1 mixing +100000000

Is this even a big ask ?

darrelldiaz · Post by **darrelldiaz** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:58 pm

darrelldiaz · Post by **darrelldiaz** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:58 pm

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 3:09 pm

+10000000000000000
quad support, as well as all other surround formats

clipless · Post by **clipless** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:10 pm

ubermnd · Post by **ubermnd** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:53 am

+10100100100101011100110101110101011101000101010001010100

Sign me up.

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:31 pm

Making music in surround would be equivalent to my step up from eJay to FL Studio.

guly · Post by **guly** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:28 pm

http://guly.org/img/abe4out.jpg this should be a workaround..not sure, try yourself

subbasshead · Post by **subbasshead** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:59 pm

yeah that kinda works as a workaround, although i just use 2 aux outs for the surrounds
as theres nothing wrong with the LR for front...
but what we need is a quad and/or 5.1 panner...
ie the sofware equivalent of one of these:

ubermnd · Post by **ubermnd** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:14 am

yeah, you can botch surround with this method, but without proper dedicated panners and multichannel routing options its very basic. You can create a simple panner if your controller has a joystick or an x-y pad. I used this method for a surround project recently and it was pretty limited.

I'm holding out for fully integrated ambisonic encoders/decoders. Will probably be a long wait for sure.

The live potentials of surround sound are perfect with the Ableton interface and workflow. Even basic multichannel support would be a start!

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:48 am

subbasshead wrote:the sofware equivalent of one of these:

What I need is a hardware/software equivalent of this. A solution that incorporates both the joystick model in the software & a physical joystick per channel.

Ideally the software will be Live with surround support.

As for the hardware controller, I'll probably have to build it myself since this is not a common requirement.

Might as well ask: does anyone know of a "surround mixer" with joysticks on each channel? One more little detail: it has to be small enough to take to gigs. Probably doesn't exist.

subbasshead · Post by **subbasshead** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:55 am

For remote controlling a single channel there is this:

http://www.jlcooper.com/pages/mcspan.html

but its US$1299

My hope is one of these ipod Touch apps will made a panner remote control...

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:53 am

subbasshead wrote:For remote controlling a single channel there is this:

http://www.jlcooper.com/pages/mcspan.html

but its US$1299

My hope is one of these ipod Touch apps will made a panner remote control...

It'll set me back a piece at $20,784 for 16 channels!

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:53 am

Thanks though!