Choose Edit > Preferences > Audio Channel Mapping (Windows) or Audition > Preferences > Audio Channel Mapping (Mac OS).
Last updated on
18 May 2021
- Audition User Guide
- Introduction
- Workspace and setup
- Digital audio fundamentals
- Importing, recording, and playing
- Multichannel audio workflow
- Create, open, or import files in Adobe Audition
- Importing with the Files panel
- Extracting audio from CDs
- Supported import formats
- Navigate time and playing audio in Adobe Audition
- Recording audio
- Monitoring recording and playback levels
- Remove silences from your audio recordings
- Editing audio files
- Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
- Session Markers and Clip Marker for Multitrack
- Generating text-to-speech
- Matching loudness across multiple audio files
- Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor
- Selecting audio
- How to copy, cut, paste, and delete audio in Audition
- Visually fading and changing amplitude
- Working with markers
- Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio
- How to automate common tasks in Audition
- Analyze phase, frequency, and amplitude with Audition
- Frequency Band Splitter
- Undo, redo, and history
- Converting sample types
- Creating podcasts using Audition
- Applying effects
- Enabling CEP extensions
- Effects controls
- Applying effects in the Waveform Editor
- Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
- Adding third party plugins
- Notch Filter effect
- Fade and Gain Envelope effects (Waveform Editor only)
- Manual Pitch Correction effect (Waveform Editor only)
- Graphic Phase Shifter effect
- Doppler Shifter effect (Waveform Editor only)
- Effects reference
- Apply amplitude and compression effects to audio
- Delay and echo effects
- Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only) for Audition
- Filter and equalizer effects
- Modulation effects
- Reduce noise and restore audio
- Reverb effects
- How to use special effects with Audition
- Stereo imagery effects
- Time and pitch manipulation effects
- Generate tones and noise
- Mixing multitrack sessions
- Video and surround sound
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Saving and exporting
Monitoring 5.1 surround sound
Adobe Audition supports 5.1 surround sound, which requires five speakers, plus one low frequency subwoofer (LFE). To properly monitor 5.1 surround sound , your computer must have a sound card with at least six outputs, and those outputs must be mapped to the correct channels in Audition.
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Map each 5.1 channel to a sound card output:
L: Front left speaker.
R: Front right speaker.
C: Front center speaker.
LFE: Subwoofer
Ls: Left surround speaker.
Rs: Right surround speaker.
For more information, see Configure audio inputs and outputs.
Edit 5.1 surround files
In the Waveform Editor, you can edit 5.1 surround files with the same tools used for mono and stereo files.
To restrict editing to a subset of 5.1 channels, see Specify which channels you want to edit.
Pan tracks in a 5.1 surround mix
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Open or create a 5.1 multitrack session. (See Create a new multitrack session.)
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To open the Track Panner, do either of the following:
Choose Window > Track Panner. Then select a mono or stereo track in the Editor panel.
In the Editor or Mixer panel, double-click a surround plot for a mono or stereo track.
Note:You can pan only mono and stereo tracks, not 5.1 tracks. To adjust the relative volume of channels in a 5.1 file, open it in the Waveform Editor.
Double-click a surround plot to open the Track Panner
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In the Track Panner, do any of the following:
To enable or disable channels, click the L, C, R, Ls, and Rs buttons. Or click LFE Only to send audio only to the subwoofer.
In the large surround plot, drag to change the position of the signal.
As you drag, white lines change in length from the speakers, reflecting the power of the signal in each. In the background, green and purple areas reflect the placement of left and right stereo image; blue areas indicate where the image overlaps.
Below the surround plot, set the following options:
Angle
Shows where in the surround field the sound appears to originate from. For example, -90° is directly to the left, while 90° is directly to the right.
Stereo Spread
Determines the separation between stereo audio tracks, with zero and -180° producing minimum separation, and -90° producing maximum separation.
Radius
Determines how far around the surround field the sound extends. For example, 100% produces a focused sound originating from very few speakers, while 0% produces an unfocused sound originating from all speakers.
Center
For tracks panned to the front of the surround field, determines the percentage of Center channel level relative to Left and Right level.
LFE
Controls the level of signal sent to the subwoofer.
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To pan additional tracks, simply select them in the Editor panel. The Track Panner automatically displays each track’s unique settings.
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To dynamically pan surround tracks over time, see Automating track settings.
Pan sends to a 5.1 bus track
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In the Multitrack Editor, create a 5.1 bus track. (See Add or delete tracks.)
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From the send output menu for an audio track, select the 5.1 bus track. (See Set up a send.)
In the Sends area
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the Editor and Mixer panels, a surround plot appears. Double-click
it to access the Track Panner for the send.
