hi
first you have to add your channels at startup as a command line argument.
second, you have to use subjects in your emails...
I think, this is not quite true. -audio[X]dev tells Pd what "card" to use, not what cannels. It's analog to -midi[X]dev which lets you use
correct. that's what we have "-inchannels" ("-outchannels", "-channels") for. see "pd -help" for a full list of arguments and what they mean.
furthermore, note that "pd -listdev" does *not* work on linux (probably under macOS, but i don't know; it does work on windof)
mididevs actually do work, whereas I never got Pd to talk to more than one soundcard reliably.
this depends. pd can not handle multiple soundcards that provide their own reference-clock to get the sampling-rate. if you have two (say) soundblaster-cards, chances are very low that their clocks will be exactly the same, e.g. one card will be clocked at 44100Hz and the other at 44098Hz. the 2 cards will get out of sync and after some time you will get a dac-slip on one of your outputs.
however, some cards can be synced - either by slaving them to wordclock or some digital audio signal (if they have digital I/O) or via some special onboard sync-cable (RMEhammerfall-cards have this feature so you can stack 2 cards)
how else am i supposed to get 48 channels out of my computer (in times prior to MADI) ?
mfg.a.sdr IOhannes