Hosts & Applications (Sequencers, DAWs, Audio Editors, etc.) • Re: Can S/PDIF output 4.0 Surround Sound to AV Receiver from Ableton Live 12 Suite?

An AC3 encoder is what you need. I used for video mainly and PowerDirector allow that to happend.
- AC3 can make like Dolby 5.1 on a single spdif up to 48k sample rate.

So I used 6 channel wav output from daw(Cakewalk at the time, some surround enabled daw)
- took this into PowerDirector
- rendered video for AC3 audio Dolby 5.1
- played back that video with a spdif as output into surround decoder
- worked fine

In Windows I made 6 WDM channels in RME panel for audio interface, then it pops up a 8 channel device for ADAT in windows.
- this allows a host to sense there is multi channel capabilities

Search internet for AC3 encoders as plugins.

I found this as a quick result
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/pr ... g-plug-ins

There is a gap to exactly what you want to do, but some hints anyway to get started.

Have fun....

Statistics: Posted by lfm — Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:53 am

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