Surround Trouble: Audio Ease Altiverb XL

I'm having trouble inserting Altiverb 7 XL into a surround bus.  Rather than a single surround instance of Altiverb, I end up with Sonar's SurroundBridge and three stereo instances of Altiverb, thereby preventing access to Altiverb's surround capabilities.

The problem, I suspect, stems from Altiverb and Sonar both trying to be "smart" regarding channel I/O.  That is, Sonar automatically launches SurroundBridge when it detects a stereo plugin being inserted into a surround bus, while Altiverb XL launches as a stereo plugin by default, only enabling surround I/O after analyzing the host environment.  [There isn't a hardwired, six-channel version of Altiverb, unfortunately.]  Consequently, Sonar sees Altiverb as a stereo plugin and wraps three instances of it in SurroundBridge, where the plugin is forever encapsulated in stereo mode.

Hopefully, there's a workaround?  A secret INI setting, perhaps?

Any assistance is appreciated.

I'm afraid so.  All of those articles introduce SurroundBridge and explain how it works with stereo and mono effects but without suggesting a way to defeat it.
 
Ideally, SurroundBridge would be optional or have an exception list whereby certain plugins will not automatically instantiate it when inserted into a surround bus.

Maybe I'm being dense here, but I can't find those docs.  I remember downloading the documentation update with the 2016.09 Sonar update, but can't find it on my hard drive.  It's a PDF, no?
 
They should really put a link to the local documentation in Sonar's Help menu.

Yeah, I have it, but assumed Command Center took care of the installation.  So, I need to find an .EXE and run it?  Grrr....

Okay, I finally found the documentation:
 
C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\SONAR Platinum\SONAR Reference Guide.pdf
 
Not sure why Windows Explorer couldn't turn this up before, but it's there now and, I'm sorry to say, has few, if any, modifications to the surround topics.
 
But thank you for the recommendation.  It was definitely worth a look.