Surround Panning

[Mephostopholes]

I want to pan an audio clip around a quad speaker set up. Panning from LF to RF, RR to LR is obviously easy but how do I get from RF to RR, LR to LF?

[DVDdoug]

If you have (or create) the extra surround tracks you can fade-in and fade-out the different tracks but there is no built-in surround panning.

And unless something’s changed Audacity doesn’t allow you to listen in surround until you export.

When you export, select Custom Mapping to create a surround file.

This is the channel sequence when you load a 5.1 channel Dolby Digital file into Audacity:
1= Left
2= Right
3= Center
4= LFE
5= Left Surround
6= Right Surround

I don’t know if the other formats are the same or what the quad sequence is.
You might have to experiment. I discovered the above after importing a Dolby test disc.

P.S.
I did this once to make a surround track from concert DVD with a mono audio track…

I used some EQ to create something like a “fake stereo” effect across the front.

I did something similar in the rear, but with some delay and reverb.

I “panned” the dialog between songs to the center.

I “panned” the applause between songs to the rear and I copied applause from different parts of the recording to make it different in each rear speaker and different from the front, and to get boosted applause in the rear when there was also music in the front.

[Mephostopholes]

Thanks for your response. I’ve been remixing stereo tracks of popular old stuff to 5.1 in audacity using various ai separation apps and a template system. I’m not sure if I came up with it on my own or if I read about it somewhere. Basically using the format you descibed above I lay out templates for drums, bass, guitars, vocals, etc. and mix them together in audacity. It’s not an ideal situation but it’s what I have right now and although time consuming and cumbersome, the results have been very nice. What I think I have to do is divide the mono track into 4 pieces and use fade ins and outs to complete the circling audio. I was just wondering if anyone had done anything similar in audacity. Thanks again for your response.