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 encoder. 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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