Crestron Touch panel
- Click home>Advanced>Surround Settings>Make sure surround settings are set to auto
Choose Surround Sound
- Make sure surround settings are set to auto
- Make sure the front panel of the decoder in the rack states HDMI and PCM – should look like this frame grab
Launch the Audio MIDI Setup tool. Click HDMI and Output > Choose 8ch-24 bit Integer
Choose Configure Speakers. Multichannel 5.1 Surround and set to these settings below. Click Apply.
Click Apply and Done and Close the Audio Midi Setup Tool.
Launch ProTools |
Open a session |
Check the Playback Engine> go to >Setup>Playback Engine |
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Make sure the HDMI output is selected and you will need to restart if it is not already selected |
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Click on >Setup>I/O |
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Click on the 5.1 path order and make sure the L, R, C, LFE, Ls and Rs are selected |
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Select all the ouputs and delete them. |
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After all the outputs are selected click delete path |
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Click Delete |
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Click on "New Path" |
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Choose to create 1 new track 5.1 and path = Output |
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The channels will be blank but you can click in the blank area with the pencil tool and they will auto populate |
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Click OK to Apply |
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Go to >Track>New |
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Create one new 5.1 audio track – Create |
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Better yet create a mono track and create some pink noise on the track to test |
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On the new track select a span of the clip to create the white noise on |
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Go to AudioSuite>Other>Signal Generator |
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Choose Pink Noise |
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Make sure the Output is Yellow and set to Output 5.1 output |
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Go To >Window> |
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In the mix window on the track with the 5.1 output you will see the "Multi Channel" Panner window |
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To see the Multichannel fader larger click on the mini fader |
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This will open the surround window |
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Note to check LFE |
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Go to Output> |
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