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Dataton's Watchout is a powerful program for video playback and sequencing, but multi-channel audio support has been a bit lackluster. Show Sage has been working with a company called Merging that offers a product called Ovation with the goal of mitigating this gap by linking Ovation with Watchout.
Ovation brings a world of audio features, probably more than anyone working in video would need. The best part: it links up to Watchout via TCP for a seamless link. Ovation's website says that this link provides sub-frame accuracy on wired or wireless networks.
Ovation offers 384 audio tracks per system, so I can't imagine anyone will ever hit the cap. There is also dynamic control of grouping layers to different outputs, providing more flexibility than many traditional sound setups and especially more than just about any media server...