PC CARD ADVICE
•
•
If you need to toggle between stereo and multi-channel configuration, you can
store an entire surround project on a PC card. Since preferences are also
stored on the PC card, your DDX3216 will automatically go into surround
mode as soon as the surround project is uploaded from the PC card.
I/O-SETTING
The last in/out or bus setting active before powering up the SURROUND
function (display page SETUP > PREFS) is stored and can be recalled again
as soon as the surround option is switched off.
6. BRIEF SURROUND SUMMARY
DOLBY
®
DIGITAL & DTS
®
IN THE DDX3216?
GOING FROM SURROUND MIX TO A CD/DVD
To avoid any confusion:
With the newest surround update, the DDX3216 offers the option to implement
the 5.1 surround mix live and also record it multi-channel, for example in an audio
sequencer software.
However, the DDX3216 has
no
internal encoder necessary for encrypting into
DOLBY
®
Digital or DTS
®
formats! Encoders are not exactly inexpensive, and you
can get them from various hardware and software suppliers. More information on
the subject can be found under
www.dolby.com
or
www.dtsonline.com
.
If you want to encrypt your own multitrack surround mixes in the above mentioned
standard formats, you need a DTS
®
or DOLBY
®
digital
en
coder. They are
available either as hardware or software solutions, for example as plug ins for
audio software such as Nuendo from STEINBERG
®
.
After encrypting your surround mix into the desired format using the
encoder
, you
can burn this file onto a CD-R/W or DVD. Then, you can play this CD/DVD on
most ordinary DVD players. In this case, the encrypted signal is
decoded
either in
the DVD unit itself or in the surround receiver/amplifier. Only then are separate
audio channels accessible again and are reproduced on the speakers, the same
way they were originally mixed on the DDX3216.
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