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Cavern presets


The most common channel layouts are available on this panel and don't have to be created by the user. PC-ready presets fit into operating system channel limits and using these layouts in real-time on the PC is possible.

  • Stereo: Front left and right channels.
  • Stereo headset: Side left and right channels.
  • Quadraphonic: Front/rear left and right channels.
  • 5.1 Surround Headset: Front/rear left and right channels with a Voice of God (top center) channel and LFE. This layout makes sounds coming from the front center actually come from the front on these headsets.
  • 5.1 Surround: Left, right, center, LFE, side surround left/right.
  • 6.2 Surround: Left, right, front/rear center, double LFE, side surround left/right. The rear left output will be the rear center and the rear right will be the second LFE.
  • 7.1 Surround: Left, right, center, LFE, rear/side surround left/right.
  • 5.1.2 Surround: A 5.1 with height left/right channels above the listener.
  • Gaming 3D 6-way: A layout with 6 main channels and no LFE (you might swap the floor channel with it), optimized for best spatial coverage. Recommended only for gaming.
  • Gaming 3D 8-way: A layout with 8 main channels and no LFE (you might swap the floor channel with it), optimized for best spatial coverage. Recommended only for gaming.

While Virtual presets can be rendered in real time, because of operating system limitations, they have to be downmixed for the available system output channels. This downmix works in a way where center and LFE channels will be downmixed to front left/right when the channel count is less or equal than 4, and simply overflow otherwise. For example, channel 9 on a 7.1 system will be rendered to front left (channel 1), channel 10 to front right (channel 2), etc.

So what are the uses of virtual presets? Visualization and conversion. You can see how a layout looks like, this is the easy part. This layout can then be used to upconvert content to that specific layout. These conversions can then be played back on systems that have enough channels and support WAV files with this many channels. Studio equipment should have no problems handling these.

  • 5.1.4 Surround: A 5.1 with height front/rear left/right channels above the listener.
  • 7.1.2 Surround: A 7.1 with height left/right channels above the listener.
  • 7.1.4 Surround: A 7.1 with height front/rear left/right channels above the listener.
  • 22.2 Surround: The Super Hi-Vision TV standard channel layout.
  • Small Cinema: Small single-layer cinema layout with 3 screen channels, 8 surrounds, and 1 LFE.
  • Large Cinema: Large single-layer cinema layout with 3 screen channels, 14 surrounds, and 3 LFE channels.
  • Cavern Cinema XL: Optimal distribution of 32 channels in a cinema with 5 screen channels, 14 regular and 6 height surrounds, 2 in-stairs, and 5 LFE channels.
  • Dome: 140 channels forming a sphere or a cube depending on environment. Designed to showcase how powerful Cavern's renderer is even on a cheap notebook.

User presets


Save your custom layout with a preset name here or reload a saved one. Presets can be transferred across systems, see the Save data locations page for details.

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Channel count


Add a new channel or remove the last one. The new channel is created at the front center, and can be dragged on the screen or configured on the Manual channel setup panel.