Peter Chamberlain wrote:Are you taking about the existing item in Preferences, System?
Is that not setup how your system is setup?
No, not the Speaker Setup in Preferences. That is currently saved in preferences.
However, the Control Room Speaker Bus and Format choices are not saved with a particular timeline or with the project. So each time you switch between timelines which might require different choices (e.g., Stereo timeline to 5.1 timeline, or reopen Resolve), you must remember to check both the Bus and Format in Fairlight Meters or the speaker output will likely be wrong.
Quite a bit must be done for a 5.1 surround project/timeline to work properly. Some settings are saved with the project and/or timeline, some are not:
Preferences > System > Speaker Setup (add 5.1 Monitor set/Monitor set format and assign Control Room Outputs)
Fairlight > Bus Format (add Main 2 bus and assign it 5.1 format)
Fairlight > Meters > Control Room > Speaker > Main 2
Fairlight > Meters > Control Room > Format > 5.1
Deliver > Audio > Output Track > Main 2 (5.1)
Much head scratching (at least by me) could be avoided if the above settings could be linked and saved with the timeline.
Cheers.