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Audio Montage
The audio montage is a multitrack non-destructive editing environment that allows you to arrange, edit, play back, and record audio clips.
Multichannel Operations in the Audio Montage
You can open multichannel audio files in audio montages. Each track of the multichannel audio file is organized in channel clusters. A channel cluster is a logical group of channels. It is always one channel or a channel pair.
Multichannel Configuration
You can configure the number of channels to use for each audio montage.

Multichannel Configuration

You can configure the number of channels to use for each audio montage.

Which configuration you should select depends on a number of factors:

The number of outputs that are available on your audio card. If you only have 4 outputs on your card, you can only use surround formats with 4 or less channels.
Whether or not you intend to mix the audio montage to a surround format. If not, select the Multi Mono mode when working with Ambisonics files, for example.
The intended use of the final surround mix. For example, if you want your mix to be compatible with the 5.1 surround set-up, select the Surround mode 5.1 (L R C LFE Ls Rs).

All multichannel configurations are internally assigned to surround channels in WaveLab Elements. This means that the channels go through the Master Section and then to the audio card or they are rendered to a multichannel file or a set of mono/stereo files.