Producing 5.1 mixes

[AndInTheEnd]

Hi all.

Ok, I have the wherewithal for producing 5/6 individual files from music, and would love to be able to create either a wave or FLAC file of these channels to burn to a CD to see how well it'd sound in 5.1.

Is there any software out there that I can use to help produce such mixes (I doubt that they would be "free", but I can dream..)? Audacity is supposed to be an option, but I investigated and only got more confused!

Does anyone have any good ideas?

Thanks all.

AiTE

[ToddS]

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[AndInTheEnd]

Sorry, think it got mistaken.. I'm looking for software to help produce 5.1 mixes... not tracks to work on.

AiTE

[zaval80]

Audacity.

You won't be able to burn 5.1 to a CD.

[stereoman33]

in the old days I think there was a surcode program that could get the individual files and make it dts 5.1.. and from that you could make a dts 5.1 cdr, that you could pop into any dvd or cd player and with digital out from the player, into a home theatre receiver, you could hear in dts 5.1 surround sound.

These days you can burn dvdr's to do surround sound 5.1 etc, but im not up to date on what to do there.

[Lord Reith]

In audacity, import all the tracks and then go to settings and change from "mix down all tracks to stereo" to "custom mix".

export 5.1.jpg (161.07 KiB) Viewed 2160 times

Then when you export you'll see this dialogue:

export 2.jpg (124.29 KiB) Viewed 2160 times

[AndInTheEnd]

Thanks, dear Lord. Sadly, even though I managed (somehow) to grab the FFMpeg library necessary in Audacity, the export to 5.1 option doesn't want to show for me.

I got this far the other day, but found the Audacity instructions online a little confusing (to this old head). Ok, I managed to find the relevant library, but... then I got stuck!! Can anyone describe what I need to do in words of one syllable to help this old geezer?!!

Thanks as always - and especially to you LR for your response here.

AiTE

[AndInTheEnd]

I am convinced that there is a step that I am not doing, as the 5.1 option that the Good Lord is showing in his post above has never appeared for me .

If anyone can throw light, or offer another easy option, it would be extremely gratefully received.

Thanks all.

AiTE

[magoocus]

Audition 3 is what I used to use. Open your files in edit menu, go to multitrack menu, right-click your files one by one to insert into multitrack, then on the view menu go to Surround Encoder. In that window you can mix your files, move them around in the sound field, play back your mix etc. When you export, the 2nd option is "one interleaved 6-channel wave file." Convert the resulting 6ch wav to flac with dBpoweramp or some such.

Newer versions of Audition may give you more options, like 7.1, or straight to flac.

[Lord Reith]

I am convinced that there is a step that I am not doing, as the 5.1 option that the Good Lord is showing in his post above has never appeared for me .

If anyone can throw light, or offer another easy option, it would be extremely gratefully received.

Thanks all.

AiTE

It's under EDIT then PREFERENCES.