Stereo to Surround

cinefilm wrote on 7/19/2014, 1:27 AM

It is unfortunate that we can not place some third party surround plugins on the master, i don't understand why anyways. I was interested in using the waves UM plugin to convert stereo to surround, does anyone know of a similar method without leaving vegas pro?

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musicvid10 wrote on 7/19/2014, 6:24 PM

Sound Forge Pro, depending on the version, can use 5.1 plugins.
You could do the work there.
Of course, you won't be "converting" to surround.
You will be "simulating" surround.

cinefilm wrote on 7/22/2014, 7:39 PM

I see. I was hoping there's another solution in Vegas. Yes more like spreading or simulating.

musicvid10 wrote on 7/23/2014, 10:50 PM

Your 5.1 plugins should work in Sound Forge Pro.
That's all I can suggest.

rraud wrote on 7/24/2014, 9:38 AM

"I was hoping there's another solution in Vegas. Yes more like spreading or simulating"
> You could create and/or assign the tracks manually. However it's entirely possible to make a freak'n mess of things, especially when it comes to the inevitable down-mix when a multi-track PB is not an option. Once it leaves the realm of your control/playback system, sh__ happens. Stereo or mono is more reliable/safer.

pwppch wrote on 7/24/2014, 5:09 PM

Forge cannot do this. The UM plugin expects to take a stereo source, and output a surround channel count. We don't support this. This type would also not work on the master bus in Vegas, because a surround master bus has 6 channels.

It would require a stereo bus that this plugin is connected to, that is then routed 1:1 to the surround master. Put another way, a plugin like this would have to replace the panner we currently have for a stereo source routed to a surround master bus. (Or a track)

Just not something we support.

Peter