Surround panning
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Making surround pan settings
Here’s how to select a surround mode and make surround pan settings for the desired two adjacent channels.
1. According to the surround mode that you wish to
use, connect an appropriate playback system to the
output units that are patched to MIX channels 17–
24.
If you use 5.1ch or 6.1ch surround mode, you will
normally connect a dedicated low-frequency sub-
woofer to MIX channel 24 (LFE).
However, simply switching the surround mode will
not change the EQ (filter) settings. You will need to
use the EQ (LPF) of MIX channel 24 to remove the
high-frequency portion as appropriate for the
response of the subwoofer you are using.
2. Access the PAN/ROUTING function SURR PRM
screen.
3. Use the surround mode select buttons to select the
desired surround mode, and press the [ENTER]
switch.
The SURROUND MODE popup window will
appear, asking you to confirm that you want to
change the surround mode.
4. Move the cursor to the OK button and press the
[ENTER] switch.
The selected surround mode will become active.
5. Press the [SEL] switch of an input channel or ST IN
channel (or a SEL button in the screen) to select the
channel for which you want to adjust the surround
panning.
The SURR PRM screen always displays the surround
parameters for two adjacent channels; surround pan
settings are made in units of two channels.
6. Adjust the surround panning of the channel.
You can use any of the following methods to adjust the
surround panning.
•
Using the track pad
Move the pointer into the surround pan grid of the
channel you want to control, and drag the yellow
symbol forward, backward, left, or right. (The
symbol will turn red while you are dragging it.)
•
Using the cursor switches
Move the cursor to the surround pan grid of the
channel you want to control, and press the [ENTER]
switch. Alternatively, click within the grid and then
press the [ENTER] switch. (The symbol will turn
red.)
In this state, you can press the CURSOR [
√
]/[
®
]
switches to move the surround panning in the left/
right direction, or press the CURSOR [
▲
]/[
▼
]
switches to move the surround panning in the front/
rear direction, over a range of eight steps respectively.
By holding down the [SHIFT] switch and pressing
the CURSOR [
√
]/[
®
]/[
▲
]/[
▼
] switches you can
rapidly move the surround pan over a range of
thirty-two steps in the left/right or front/rear direc-
tion.
•
Using the SELECTED INPUT CHANNEL section
You can use the SELECTED INPUT CHANNEL sec-
tion MIX SEND [LEVEL/PAN] encoders to control
the surround panning.
Use the [SEL] switch to select the channel that you
want to control. Then turn encoder 19 to move the
surround panning left/right, and turn encoder 21 to
move it in the front/rear direction in units of one
step.
•
Using the panning buttons of the SURR PRM
screen
If you want to rapidly move the channel signal to the
position of a speaker, click one of the panning but-
tons (such as L, C, R) located at the edge of the sur-
round pan grid in the SURR PRM screen.
•
Using MIDI control changes
In V1.6 the following three surround parameters
have been added to the MIDI CTRL CHANGE
screen as assignable surround parameters.
•
[SURR] L-R PAN
Controls the left/right surround pan value. Pan-
ning will move toward the right as the value
increases.
•
[SURR] F-R PAN
Controls the front/rear surround pan value. The
minimum value pans the sound to the rear, and
the maximum value pans it to the front.
•
[SURR] F-R INV.PAN
Controls the front/rear surround pan value. The
maximum value pans the sound to the rear, and
the minimum value pans it to the front.
