Create Proxies without Premiere

I don't know if there is a way to do this already... but this is either a question or a suggestion depending on if it's possible

When generating proxies in Media Encoder through Premiere Pro, the proxies adopt the audio channels and attributes of the source files.

Premiere Pro requires that audio on proxies matches.

Is there a way to do this in AME as a first step?Without going through Premiere Pro.

As far as I have been able to find, there is no way to do any sort of pass-through audio on Apple ProRes Proxy files through AME... it would have to be set in the preset or per file, but then you'd have to have a preset for every different type of audio configuration and that isn't very realistic

Since it can work when going through Premiere as an intermediary, why not have the option to do it without Premiere on the front end and then connect your proxies later?

is this already possible? I can't find it.