Surround Sound--Garrigus?? Are you there?

[Gargamel]

Does Cakewalk have any plans on delving into the 5.1 Surround Sound are? I would love to see them release a Dolby Digital Encoder..take 6 wav files of the same song and encode them into dolby digital format.

[garrigus]

Hi Gargamel,

Yes, I'm here. :-) I just don't get a chance to visit this board on a daily basis.

Regarding your question, I haven't heard anything about Cakewalk supporting surround sound in their products.

Best,
Scott

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[Torpid-x]

Speaking of surround sound, What do you need to add dolby encoding? are there any programs (AFFORDABLE) to do that?

Rich

[Gargamel]

Software based encoders are roughly $900.
You take your mix and convert it into 6 wave files. (obviously with different eq settings and instruments for each file)...put all 6 files into the encoder and wallah.....5.1 surround sound. Check out dts encoders as well

[Torpid-x]

For $900.00 It better suck me to!!!!!

Rich

[Yadi]

If your interested in non-5.1 encoding...I guess that means Pro Logic, I think I saw some plug-ins for surround sound panning. Now wouldn't they be encoding by way of adjusting frequencies and phase? I know these plug-ins were only $200 or less. http://www.thedirectxfiles.com/manufacturers/ultrafunk_pack.htm#fx:surround

Please let me know what you think! I want to do at least basic dolby surround L/C/R/ and rear channels.

[Elle]

I called Cakewalk a while back and asked them if they will be coming out with surround sound panners and encoding plugins. They said no, they were not planning on it. Since then Logic Audio has as well as Nuendo. I think with Cakewalk it's just a matter of time.

As far as encoding goes, Minnetonka has been around for quiet awhile offering DTS encoding software for $500. There are others now coming out but after talking to the guys at Minnetonka, I'll wait for DVD. Right now a DVD player/recoder is $5000, and he said in a few years they will drop to what CD recorders are. He said then you won't need the encoder software at all. So I figured why spend the 500, I'll wait.

But even so, you still can't use Cakewalk because you can only pan Left and Right.