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• With a Depth of Center setting of “0” the center-

panned channel is routed to the center speaker
only (speaker 3).

• With a Depth of Center setting of “100” the center-

panned channel is routed equally to the front left
and right speakers (speakers 1 and 2).

•

Note:

Speakers 7 and 8 are unaffected by the

Depth of Center control.

Low Freq Effect

• This control varies the channel send level to the

subwoofer (speaker 4).

• This is the only control over channel levels to the

subwoofer (speaker 4).

• The pan grid has no effect on this adjustment.
• With this control set to OFF there is no send level

to the subwoofer.

• Unity gain is achieved when this control is set to

“0.0”.

Right Click

Right click in the desired window to reveal the

Surround Menu. This menu provides opportunity to:

• Reset the channel surround parameters

• Undo previous action

• Open previously saved surround channel status

• Save existing surround channel parameters

• Cut, Copy, or Paste all channel settings

MENU

Surround Menu commands are only active on

pannable channels. If a menu command is unavail-
able, it will display in gray upon Menu activation.
Menu selections are not available in the Master
Fader bank.

Undo

• This feature is available to Undo cut, copy, paste,

arm, and reset commands.

• As an added aid, the Undo command specifies the

target of its action.

• This feature does not undo changes in surround

pan positioning.

Reset

• Resets the selected channel to front-center pan

position.

• Deactivates all speaker selections.
• Sets Depth of Center status to “0” (center pan

routes to speaker 3 only in surround or equally to
L/R in stereo).

• Sets Low Freq Effect to 0.0 (unity gain).
• Reset affects only the selected morph setting (red

ball/green ball).

• Channel settings that are reset are not stored on

the Clipboard, and therefore they are not available
for Paste functions. However, a reset can be
reversed by selecting “Undo” in the Surround
Sound window Menu or by pressing Ctrl+Z.

Open Surround…

• This action opens the Surround Files folder where

previously saved surround settings are stored.

• Highlight the desired setting and click Open or

simply double click on the item to activate it for
the selected channel.

Save Surround As…

• Enables archival of specific surround positions.
• Opens the Surround folder and automatically

names the file “Surround#X”.

• To rename the file, simply type the desired text

into the auto-highlighted File Name field or, if
necessary, highlight the existing text and type the
new file name.

• Click Save to complete the action.

Cut

• This action cuts all settings from the selected

channel and resets it to the default settings. Pan
is centered, speakers are deactivated, Depth of
Center is set to “0”, and Low Freq Effect is set
to “0.0”.

• Though the result of a cut is like the result of

“Reset,” settings that are cut are stored on the
Clipboard and can be pasted into a selected
channel. (Channel settings that are Reset are not
stored on the Clipboard.)

• Morph selection and time adjustments are not

part of the Cut action. They are unaffected by cut,
copy, or paste.

Copy

• This action copies all current surround channel

settings to the Clipboard. Copied settings can be
pasted to other selected channels.

• All Surround Sound parameters are copied and

are part of the Paste function. However, only data
for selected Morph (green ball/red ball) is copied.

• Morph selection and time adjustments are not

part of the Copy action. They are unaffected by
cut, copy, or paste.

Paste Surround

• This action replaces any current settings on a

selected channel with previously copied or cut
surround data.