How to bus a multi channel track to a stereo track

[Marcel Risberg]

Due to the current bounce to QuickTime-bug I need to bus my 5.1 master aux with the Neurinck SoundCode Stereo plug inserted to a stereo track from which I then can use for my bouncing. Otherwise I'm not able to bounce to QuickTime at all.

I can't figure out how to creat this kind of bus, going from 5.1 to stereo. The other way around was never problem.. Does anyone know?

[Craig F]

make a LR subpath in the 5.1 bus you are using
make the input of the record track the LR subpath bus

[postprosound]

No, you can't directly send a multi channel higher than stereo to a stereo. This is one of those things i would love to see AVID do.

The only way to do it with out a plugin, and call it old fashioned, is to bus your 5.1 aux to another 'record' 5.1 bus. Create 6 mono aux's, L C R Ls Rs Lfe, with the inputs routed to the individual stems of your 'record' 5.1 bus. Output these 6 to a stereo.. Pan tracks accordingly, and drop the C -3db and the surrounds -6 db each. (I think my numbers are correct, correct me if i'm wrong...)

[Maskeeper]

But he says he has the plugin... so it should send out the L/R channels of the 5.1 (requiring subpath) or convert the bus to stereo on insertion (depending on the version).

[SDDP]

Originally Posted by postprosound

No, you can't directly send a multi channel higher than stereo to a stereo. This is one of those things i would love to see AVID do.

The only way to do it with out a plugin, and call it old fashioned, is to bus your 5.1 aux to another 'record' 5.1 bus. Create 6 mono aux's, L C R Ls Rs Lfe, with the inputs routed to the individual stems of your 'record' 5.1 bus. Output these 6 to a stereo.. Pan tracks accordingly, and drop the C -3db and the surrounds -6 db each. (I think my numbers are correct, correct me if i'm wrong...)

Not to jack the thread, although I am probably still in the are of the op.
Can bouncing to a quicktime and making a Stereo from 5.1 using WAVES M360° Surround Mixdown?

[Frank Kruse]

craig is right. simply add a stereo sub path to your 5.1 bus coming from the plugin and use the sub path when bouncing to QT.

the output of the plug will only have signals on L/R anyway so no need to split up all the 5.1 channels. one stereo sub-path will do.

frank.

[TAFF]

+1 on Craigs answer. I've got exactly the same setup. We slap the Neyrinck on the 5.1 printmaster stem. Make a stereo subpath and then bus out of that to a new stereo record track.

Taff

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[Marcel Risberg]

Finally I was able to bounce a stereo submix to QuickTime using a separate recording bus, unaffected by any inserts.
I had to try quite a few different options before I was successful. Also, I ran into a few errors/bugs on my way. To bad this forum doesn't accept picture uploads. I kept a few screen shots of them I wanted to upload.

Thank you for your help!