Full fat cinema atmos can scale to (iirc) 512 channels. (Things may have changed since I last was involved!)
In that case, it’s a 7.1 bed, and all the other channels are effectively coordinates in the room, and the processor steers objects between them in real time, rather than having defined tracks.
It depends on the version of atmos.
Full fat cinema atmos can scale to (iirc) 512 channels. (Things may have changed since I last was involved!)
In that case, it’s a 7.1 bed, and all the other channels are effectively coordinates in the room, and the processor steers objects between them in real time, rather than having defined tracks.