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Surround Sound
Cubase provides integrated surround sound features with support for several formats. All audio-related channels and busses can handle multi-channel speaker configurations. A channel in the MixConsole can contain either complete surround mixes or an individual speaker channel as part of a surround setup.
Preparations for Creating Surround Mixes
To prepare Cubase for surround sound, you must define input and output busses in a surround format and specify which audio inputs and outputs are used for the different channels in the busses.
Output Bus Configuration
Before working with surround sound, you must configure a surround output bus through which to route all the speaker channels of the selected surround format.
Child Busses
Child busses allow you to route tracks to particular channels within a surround bus. Creating stereo busses within your surround bus allows you to route stereo tracks directly to a pair of stereo speakers. You can also add child busses with fewer channels than the parent bus in other surround formats.

Child Busses

Child busses allow you to route tracks to particular channels within a surround bus. Creating stereo busses within your surround bus allows you to route stereo tracks directly to a pair of stereo speakers. You can also add child busses with fewer channels than the parent bus in other surround formats.

Once you have created a surround bus, you can add one or several child busses to it by right-clicking the bus and selecting Add Child Bus.

Figure 1. Output bus in 5.1 channel configuration with stereo child bus