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Originally Posted by iigunzent
between 5.1 and Stereo I’ve always just started on a stereo session. And when i wanted to go to 5.1 i just created a new session and imported. It’s an extra few steps, but it’s always worked for me. I never even thought to do it in the same session. Didn’t even know it was possible. Lol I’d love to be able to sit in with somebody and learn that one.
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The quick answer: there are two legit ways to do it.
1. Do everything at the highest track width in your session, so everything is 5.1, for example. Then duplicate your mix and stem busses and add downmix plug-ins to make stereo mixes and stems. Very easy. Sounds fine in most circumstances.
2. Run the alternate mixes from sends on your tracks. So the entire stereo mix would run off "MIX 2.0" or whatever. Not as easy, but sonically more flexible since you can tweak level and pan independently of the 5.1 mix.
The biggest reason to work this way is that any tweak you make to the mix or the edit updates all output versions simultaneously. Clients expect this.