i have one motu 828 and i was surprised to get a total of 6 analogue outs. dac~ 1 2 5 6 7 8 will get me 6 analog channels out. dac~ 3 4 "seem" to trigger my spdif's (say seems b/c only the spdif light indicator goes green when i feed a signal into it; no way to really test it). to get that set up, using the _stable_ version of pd, i had: pd -soundoutdev 1,3,4,5 -outchannels 8
audio input device #1: 828 Analog 1-2 #2: 828 SPDIF 1-2 #3: 828 Analog 3-4 #4: 828 Analog 5-6 #5: 828 Analog 7-8 audio output device :same thing
so. . . just do that. you may lose 2 analog channels from what you already have, but you can get at least 500 bucks in return, :)
kakakakakakrambone!!! -mark k.
it may be possible to do some code tweaking and recompile using VC++ 6 but i'm not the one to know how to do that.