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Note: Some sound cards that offer 5.1 playback, such as the Creative Labs Audigy, display only
one device driver in the list. In this case, this is the device you should select because the sound
card’s driver will route the six channels of audio to the correct speakers. (If a multichannel
device driver is not available from the sound card’s manufacturer, you probably won’t get a
true surround-sound preview.) For sound cards that offer an interleaved multichannel driver,
you should select this from the list. These driver types will accept the 6-audio input from Adobe
Audition and automatically route it to the standard Microsoft 5.1 channel configuration.
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From the Preview Format Selector menu, select the bit rate of the preview playback
material that is sent to your sound card. If your session includes higher bit rate files, and
if your sound card supports it, you can select a higher rate to the preview your session
more accurately.
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Set the Preview Buffer Size for the buffers used for Play Track and Play All. Larger buffer
sizes enable a more stable preview playback, but increase the latency (that is, makes it take
longer to play the result of changes made while previewing). If dropouts occur when you
preview the audio, try increasing the buffer size.
Exporting surround-sound files
Adobe Audition includes the ability to encode directly to an interleaved 6-channel
Windows Media 9 Pro (WMA) file or to export into two WAV formats. The Format
Options field in the Multichannel Export Options dialog box indicates the currently
selected format. The format is retained from your last used export option.
Note: To export and encode your project to a 6-channel WMA file, you must have Windows
Media 9 runtime installed (it is installed by default as part of the Adobe Audition instal-
lation). If you have an earlier version installed, the Encode to WMA9 option will not be
available. The latest Windows Media Updates are available on the Microsoft Web site.
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