5.1 Audio Mixer window

Can anyone tell me what the order of the meters are in a 5.1 project with a 5.1 audio master?  The meters appear to be L, R, Ls, Rs, C, Lfe while the surcode plugin is looking for L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs.
Is there any way to change the order of the audio mixer meter to ensure  it matches with the surcode plugin?
Also, is there any way to send audio exclusively to the Lfe instead of to L,R,Ls,Rs and Lfe?
THX!

There are several questions and considerations here.
1. the order of the VU meters is predicated on the Audio Tracks (AT) in PrPro. At this stage of things, you place source material on the various AT's and then position them spatially. Effects (say a filter on an AT that you want to go to the LFE channel) also can play a role, but you make the decisions.
2. the "standard order of channels in say a WMA file, with the individual tracks set for stripping to discreet mono WAV elements, is as per below:
Track Number
Track Name
1
Left (front)
2
Right (front)
3
Center (front)
4
LFE
5
Left Surround (rear)
6
Right Surround (rear)
Now, with the SurCode DD 5.1 SS encoding, things change a bit. This does come into play if you go to a program, like Audition:
Track Number
Track Name
1
Left (front)
2
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3
Right (front)
4
Left Surround (rear)
5
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6
LFE
Hope that this helps. If you are Importing and placing "standard" discreet SS files onto AT's, use the first table. [I also rename each AT to reflect exactly what is going to be one it.] If you are Exporting, via SurCode to then plan on using table #2, when dealing with the discrete mono files.
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