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Surround Sound
Nuendo 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.
Object Audio in Nuendo
Nuendo provides a complete suite of tools for authoring, recording, mixing, and playing back object-based audio content, using the Audio Definition Model (ADM).
Authoring and Mixing for Dolby Atmos®
Nuendo allows you to mix fully compliant audio content for Dolby Atmos and to create ADM files in Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) with object audio and channel-based beds for playback through the Dolby Atmos Renderer.
Setup for Dolby Atmos Mixes
For creating Dolby Atmos mixes, you need a renderer, and you must define audio tracks in your project as beds and objects.
Setup for the External Dolby Atmos Renderer
If you use an external Dolby Atmos Renderer, you must specify the audio streams to be sent to the renderer as objects.
Multi-Object Busses
You can make stereo and multi-channel busses available as multi-object busses.

Multi-Object Busses

You can make stereo and multi-channel busses available as multi-object busses.

Generally, objects in Dolby Atmos content are meant to be mono, but Nuendo also allows you to create stereo or multi-channel busses and make them available as multi-object busses. This allows you to tilt and rotate pre-panned multi-channel signals in the Dolby Atmos surround field, for example, a 5.0 channel background mix.

Note

Due to the proximity between side and top speakers in a Dolby Atmos system, tilting of multi-channel signals allows for a signal panning that may not always be perfectly reproducible.
In Object Mode, there is no LFE channel. To to use a surround bus with an LFE channel, for example 5.1, as a multi-object bus, we recommend that you downmix the LFE channel first.
For multi-object busses in a channel configuration with LFE, for example 5.1 or 7.1, the LFE channel is not displayed as an object.