Hi, I could do something similar on a multichannel sound card going through ASIO4all on a Windows machine. But the driver for the same sound card on Linux doesn't give all the channels easily at all. I haven't tried with MacOSX. I used a Terratec aureon USB 5.1 mk2 (and 7.1).
The ASIO driver of Pd in 0.42.5 can be a bit tricky. I think the Pd-X 0.43.1 solves a few issues there.
Good luck Pierre-Olivier
On 05/03/2012 23:35, altern wrote:
Sorry--I have no good news for you... and perhaps this knowledge only adds to your injury. The ASIC in your sound card has many, many times the potential that it actually gets used for--up to 10,000 MIPS on a quad-core DSP and up to 128 channels.
It's just normal that increasingly more powerful technology becomes generic so that it can be used in many more products so that it can sell more so that it can pay for its own development and cut down on the production costs... eventually we put supercomputers inside chequebook-sized boxes and call them « telephones ».
The best you can do is write a distributed-computing virus that detects any such ASIC and hook it on some math problem such as trying to crack exterrestrial prime numbers and stuff... ;)
I see. so basically I could use this sound card to seach for life across the universe but I cannot separate the ****** output channels. great. not sure I have time to get another card on time. grrr...
thanks!