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Maybe Mackie 1640i?
Anyway, I really doubt that any of these mixers could decode a surround stream into its component signals since they all expose a multichannel audio interface to your system. Maybe you sent the surround stream via S/PDIF through some external decoder or just the stereo stream to a pair of audio channels.
The Multimix exposes a stereo pair only, not surround.
However, the Qu exposes a multichannel audio interface to your Windows system and you’ll need an ASIO aware application to access all channels. Using the WDM interface your stereo stream end up on channels 1&2 (switch to USB to hear it).
You can not directly feed the (encoded) surround stream to any multichannel audio interface, including the Qu.