Dermot Shane wrote:one issue i have is 16 ch to map from the timeline to the output page with out altering / mixing / panning them WHAT.SO.EVER
Agree on manual but mixing panning etc for rendering is not needed. This stuff we are discussing is all about monitoring. For just 1:1 rendering you can directly add tracks to the render output. If you have 100 tracks you can add them all to the output . Select in the audio render options "timeline track" and you can then select the track number. Then click plus to add more and more and more. I use this for dailies/intermediates with 10+ channels of production audio for example
p.s. Its an important distinction that i see mixed a lot in these discussions.
You have to , and that is true for any DAW, mentally separate how you want to MONITOR something and what you want to RENDER.
Atm there are absolutely no limits on what you can output . Be it a single 50 channel audio track or 50 individual mono track or any combination of channels and tracks. No mixing needed at all . You can if you want but not needed. You render directly tracks if you want no business with panning/mixing etc.
You render busses, sub busses whatever if you want to mix stuff together into a specific standard or in a free format.
For Monitoring you "separately" from above set up either some mix to your available monitoring/speaker setup , be it mono,stereo , lcr, 5.1, 7.1.
These can be the same , but can be completely different. Simplest example of this is rendering 5.1 but monitoring submixed over a stereo bus.
And there is where the only limitations are atm. If you need to monitor to a speaker setup larger then 7.1 (i hate you , i am so jealous) then the only option is to directly map each track or mono sub output directly to a single output . This as mentioned works to any system even a 50.1 speaker setup, but does not survive a restart.
But if you have a monitoring system like this you should be ashamed
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