Upon rethinking all this, I might just go with setting up a 3D cube with eight speakers (Auratone 5Cs) and forsaking the traditional 5.1 mixing arrangement. It turns out I can probably emulate the 5.1 arrangement with some Ambisonic decoding already in my plugin arsenal.
I'm quite probably going to be doing the vast majority of my mixing in Ambisonic format from now on anyway and that can be easily downmixed to other formats.
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