I "don't say" ... :-D ... ok, it seems as I wrote two pages for you exclusively, without saying anything.

Please understand that it's not my job to explain users the handling of their DAWs. So let's start from the opposite end, once again: How would _you_ set up a surround session in Reaper? 

If you would do so, you could use _any_ downmixing device (i.e.: multi-channel to stereo) of your choice for the dynamic mixture of up to eight individual MIR Pro output channels. Is this really so hard to understand? ... must be a language thing.

@Another User said:

Please understand that it's not my job to explain users the handling of their DAWs.

Okay; and you please understand that my job is to use whichever tool does the task best for my clients, and when MIR isn't that tool, that means less revenue for VSL, and that means they have less resources to pay you for your job.

Whose job is it to document "Force output channels"?

@Dietz said:

Isn't that what you get?

No.

That's the problem, then.

@Another User said:

Is there any setting concerning plug-in channels you might have changed in Reaper?

It's extremely unlikely I've changed anything that would affect this. I have kept a written list of every Reaper-option I've changed away from the defaults, and the list is short and includes nothing related to plug-in channels.

We are all talking about MIR Pro plugin here, and there's no confusion about that; but I'm wondering, could it make a difference that I have no license for VE Pro? Is it possible that this functionality is tied to the VE Pro license? I have no idea what else could be the deciding factor.

Hi tek0010, 

I wrote you a PM concerning your registrations. Would be great to get a reply (click "MyInbox) in the menu on the left side.

In general, the MIR PRO plug-in has nothing to do with the VE PRO license.  

Thanks,
Paul

@Another User said:

I'm not sure what you mean by "individual microphone capsules". Are we really talking about the Main and Secondary Microphones in MIR, or the so-called MIR Icon that's used to represent a signal source on a stage ...? :-/

I'm here answering Dietz's question, why would a person want more inputs coming into his mixing console (or DAW) than going out from it---even though that has been a routine practice since the 1950's.

I'm here making a local copy of this thread, so I can post it on Gearslutz, KVR, and VI-Control, in case you decide to censor it here, because I wasn't "friendly" enough.

As if there aren't already enough threads on VI-Control about your treatment of the customers who pay your salary.

Wow. 

Thank you so much for answering my questions, and thanks for paying my "salary" even after I've treated you so badly.

... the word for that is "BachRules", I assume.