Surround Sound on my Macbook Pro

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Surround Sound on my Macbook Pro

Hey everyone, I have an Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro. I currently have a mini-Toslink to Toslink cable running between my MBP and my Sony STR-KS360 home theater system. However, I still cannot get 5.1 Surround Sound to work. Whenever I go into system preferences it says that it is running through the digital output and then when I go into the Audio MIDI Setup it also says it is running through the digital output but when I try to configure speakers and select multichannel it only gives me the option of stereo. All surround sound options are greyed out.

I want to get surround sound working in a manner so that I can use Soundtrack Pro to mix in surround sound. If anyone has any suggestions, recommendations, or help please advise. Thanks all.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jan 9, 2011 5:04 PM

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eww

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Jan 9, 2011 5:11 PM in response to davmarsh

You can only output 5.1 surround sound from a source that provides it, such as a commercial movie DVD.

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Jan 9, 2011 5:27 PM in response to davmarsh

So, even though Soundtrack Pro has 5.1 mixing options it cannot work as output to be recognized?

Also, as a side note I tried playing a dvd through the DVD Player application with the setup exactly the same. I went into the preferences and set it to 5.1 surround sound and my receiver would recognize that there was a 5.1 output it still only played through the left, right, and subwoofer. It did not properly output to the rest of the speakers, it only recognized that there was indeed a signal of sorts going to it.

This is not my main issue as I have a blu-ray player that runs through the system and plays in surround sound fine. My main issue is that I want be able to mix audio in surround through Soundtrack Pro's surround capabilities.

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eww

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Jan 9, 2011 5:31 PM in response to davmarsh

Sorry — I don't know anything about SoundTrack Pro or audio mixing.

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TVMJ

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Mar 18, 2011 9:16 AM in response to davmarsh

I also have this same issue and no one seems to have an answer, I have and hdmi adapter on the way, I hope I can figure this out, if I can I will post my solution and hopefully it will help others out.

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