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I have to mix music and sfx for a short animation which will play in a cinema on a Dolby 5.1 system. I need to deliver all 6 channels as separate wav files so they can encode everything to a DCP. My plan is to use the Waves 360 tools with Ableton Live 8.
I want to use the optical output on my imac and connect it to a surround receiver to monitor all 6 channels, then solo each one of them and export a separate track for each channel.
Is this possible?
The monitoring probably won't work. The optical connection on computers is S/PDIF, not Lightpipe/ADAT. That means it will only carry two channels of audio. If you have an encoder plug-in that you can put in line between your discrete DAW tracks and the computer output, you might be able to pull it off.
check out the MOTU audio interfaces. they have a TouchOSC option to control them. but really given that you want to then RENDER the MIX… remote cotrol of the DAW sounds a shit load more useful.
