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Rick0725
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September 6, 2018
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How to set up Stereo upmixing to 5.1 software in audition

  • September 6, 2018
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Please help setting up a stereo up mixing VST plugin Penteo composer 5 in Audition. 2 channel stereo to 6 discrete channels.

I saw overviews all over the internet but not specific setup instructions. Will it even work as a plugin in ?.

Thanks

Rick

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    Rick0725  wrote

    Therefore outputting what is coming out of the DAW to monitor will not work connected to the surround amp.

    Unless the surround amp has discrete 6 analogue inputs.

    Rick0725  wrote

    And what do I use for the test signal to calibrate levels to the speakers out of the DAW.

    Pink noise and a sound level meter.

    Rick0725  wrote

    I have a few velodyne powered subs with line input. will that work.

    One of those would work for the LFE. But you would need normal full range matching speakers for the centre and surround speakers to be similar to your main stereo pair.


    Final word.

    The studio set up is complete. 5 JBL studio monitors, Sub, Focusrite 18i20 audio interface, software, Dolby encoder, etc.

    Penteo works in audition CC 2018. Create a simple 5.1  multitrack session. Track 1 is the stereo audio and the Penteo plug in is added as an effect on the master. Tweak the penteo settings and export the 5.1 multitrack mixdown. Scan the 5.1 audio, make volume adjustments if necessary to the individual channels, determine the Dialogue Normalization setting, encode the dolby in media encoder with surcode, listen to the outcome, make corrections and encode again if necessary, and done.

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    September 6, 2018

    The makers of this plugin have provided absolutely no idea of how to route it - not helpful. In the top right-hand corner of all plugins when run in an Audition carrier is a little symbol with a line joining a source to one of three dots (next to the i button) and clicking on this will give you the routing options. The issue is that you are having to start with a stereo file and end up with a multi-channel one, and I'm not sure how that will work exactly, as I've only ever done it the other way around - converted B format to stereo. I will check to see if it's possible to output a surround file from that plugin (potentially it can) and that might give a bit of a clue as to what you'll need to do...

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    Rick0725Author
    Inspiring
    September 6, 2018

    This is the response I got from the company.

    Those settings are specific to your VST host not the plugin  - if you look up your DAW host
    settings, that should give you the information you need.

    I am guessing that the software outputs 6 mono files

    Rick

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    September 6, 2018

    Rick0725  wrote

    This is the response I got from the company.

    Those settings are specific to your VST host not the plugin  - if you look up your DAW host
    settings, that should give you the information you need.

    I am guessing that the software outputs 6 mono files

    Rick

    I suspect that this is true. I loaded up the aforementioned plugin (which accepts 4 channels in, but up to 7 out) and discovered that as it stands, you only get the same number of output channels available as input channels. Whilst that's fine for me, I haven't yet discovered a way around it for more output channels other than to put the input channels in a 7-channel 'container' - which you can actually do quite easily with Audition - and then, using the routing, send the outputs back to what should then be 7 available channels. If I get a chance, I'll try that later. Incidentally, I'm doing this in Waveform view, and that in itself will cause monitoring difficulties. I don't know whether any options in Multitrack view will make it any better - possibly they might, but inevitably this will also start with a stereo file in a couple of channels of whatever format you want out of it. But at least that way, the monitoring might work!

    You may have to experiment a bit, I'm afraid.

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