How Do I Set Up Ableton Live for a Dolby Atmos Workflow?

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There are a few steps required to set up Ableton Live for working in Dolby Atmos.

If you have never mixed in Dolby Atmos before, ensure that the Dolby Atmos Renderer and the Dolby Audio Bridge are installed on your system.

In Ableton Live, open the Preferences pane by navigating to Live > Preferences or entering Command+, :
            -Set the Driver Type to CoreAudio
            -Set the Audio Input Device to your preferred input device
            -Set the Audio Output Device to Dolby Audio Bridge
            -Set the In/Out Sample Rate to 48000
            -Set the Buffer Size to 1024

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            -Open the Output Config Pane
                        -Enable Mono Outputs 129 & 130 and Stereo Outputs 1-128. Note that this will only need to be done once and these settings will persist across sessions.
                        -Click OK

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For more information on working in Dolby Atmos in Ableton Live, check out the quick start video series and the self-guided training .
 

 
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