Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
I might help a person set up an installation which contains both video and sound all running in pd, and is now giving some free advices.
He needs 4 audio outs from pd, so I reccomended the delta44 soundcard. He asked if it was possible to use a cheap soundcard instead (I presume the soundquality is not that important for this). But I have no idea how well that works.
Anyone have experience having 4 outs (an "adc~ 1 2 3 4" object) on a cheap soundcard (one of those 5.1 cards or something) in pd. Does it work?
Pd is going to run linux.
This is probably better on the LAU list.
Some cheap soundcards will copy a stereo stream over front and rear giving the impression of surround sound.
However I have a cheap cmipci < $10 which has two seperate devices nodes for front and rear and you could use each side of the stereo channel as a mono if neccessary. Not quite the same amount of control as the pro cards though. Concievably, with an appropriate .asoundrc multi device I could run jackd in playback only mode then access the front and rear at the same time through any jacked app.
I use the multi device so I can access all four channels on my quattro but haven't tried to use it with the cmipci as I don't make music with it.