Disguised FOA Ambisonic Multitrack session in Audition?

Hi everyone,

I'd like to set a First-Order-Ambisonic Multitrack session in Audition. I know that Audition is not specifically suited for multichannel-multitrack sessions since its presets are limited to few standards like 5.1. Anyway I'd love to use Audition for my FOA project (since I love Audition's tools).

What I'm planning to do - please, let me know if I'm wrong - is to start with a 5.1 session (since 5.1 implies 6 channels) and add a 5.1 track that I call track-1. In track-1 I'd add an FOA AmbiX clip (i.e. a B-format 4-chan clip) and as an effect I'd add (just for example) the IEM MultiBandComp. This compressor expects a 4-chan file (not a 5.1 file...) and what I HOPE is that it will receive ONLY the first 4 channels and output 4 channels as well. I also HOPE that Audition doesn't “treat” the 4th channel (LFE) in any way nor with any bandpass or whatsoever filter (I need that Audition stays “neutral” about all the track/clip channels leaving them as they are). If so, the Master track should receive a WYZX+2cha signal (2cha means 2 void channels) instead of an LRLfeLsRs signal. Now, if I render the Master, Audition should output a 6-chan file: Audition thinks it's a 5.1 file with silence in Ls and Rs, instead for me it's an AmbiX+2cha file. But again, how does Audition process the 4th channel (LFE) in rendering? Will that channel have some auto-filter/bandpass treatment or some metadata??? If not (I HOPE) I'd open my rendered AmbiX+2cha file in Waveform Editor and I'd simply delete the last two channels in order to obtain a regular AmbiX file.

May all this work? If yes, it should be a way to handle a multichannel-Multitrack Ambisonic session with Audition, right?

P.S. Obviously, to have a feedback in headphones, I'd use the IEM BinauralDecoder plugin on the Master track, and I'd disable it once I was ready to render.

Thanks in advance for your kind help.