It happened again (and likely will happen in the future if the [reply to] isn't changed on the list) I replied just to Christian and got an answer. I wanted both to read on the list:
Christian Klippel schrieb:
on a general note: whats the sense behind using an audiointerface for controllers, except to block a valuable audio-port? do you really fiddle with knobs and sensors that fast? if so, can i have your hands, please? would make my soldering life much easier ;-D mind you: to use that, you would need an extra audio-interface. add that to the cost of the unit.
The teabox is sending all of its values thru spdif. It does make a lot of sense, if it happens that you do have an audiointerface with spdif already, not using it for audio on stage because all audio is analog there. Its delivering that as a stream, locked to the audio rate. Which makes it easy to lock your controls to audio... With having experienced all kinds of problems with interacting several USB-Midi, Audio-Midi interface combinations, I think its quite an appealing idea having only one firewire port delivering all the data within the same protocol.
Of course its pricey...
I guess Timothy would be happy to help out creating Pd objects if he didn't do it already...
Stefan