Surround sound mixing is not something I’ve been particularly impressed with when experiencing other musician’s work presented in that format. It always seems to me to be a bit of a gimmick and an excuse for guitars to go flying all over the sound stage.
However, I’ve known that Sonar Producer Edition can handle surround sound mixing for a while and seeing as I have a home cinema speaker setup at home, I thought it would be a jolly wheeze to present some of my material in this format too. Of course, I needed to make a budget for such an ambitious remixing project, so I set aside £10 to buy a new soundcard that could handle 5.1 sound for my laptop and got to work.
It was obvious that Textures is the only piece in my repertoire that deserves such a remix because there’s enough space and depth of instrumentation in the mix to do a satisfactory job. And so here it is.
There are two ways that you can get Textures [Surround Sound Mix]. The first is to download something called an ISO file which will allow you to burn your own DVD of the track for playback in a DVD player connected to a surround sound system. The downside to this is that the file is over 1Gb in size and you’ll have to burn your own DVD. The second option is to download a multi-channel Windows Media Audio file. It’s not as good as the DVD option in terms of audio quality but you can play it back on a PC or XBox 360 connected to a surround sound speaker setup. So what do you want to do?
Download Textures DVD ISO File
Enjoy!

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