at orquestra del caos we are planning a show of artistic works based on pd and max/msp patches especially oriented to control the position of sounds...
we were very grateful for your advices, opinions and experiences on sound cards and computer configurations one should use to successfully run PD on a pentium PC through 8 independent outputs.
If you are able to run PD with the -rt flag (in Linux) you can try the M-Audio Delta 410 which have 2 analog ins and 8 outs. I don't know how it performs with ASIO in Windows. (Are there issues with PortAudio when the number of inputs and outputs are not the same? I seem to remember seeing this somewhere)
Cheers
Soeren