I am trying to make a multichannel piece using pd under windows2000 and a Soundblaster Audigy Player card. I have installed the latest asio driver for the card and my other asio enabled software finds all the needed outports.

In my other software the outports show as follows:

1-2 wav out1 3-4 wav out2 5-6 wav out3 7-8 front L/R 9-10 rear L/R 11-12 Sub 13-14 Reverb

Accessing the front and rear speakers individually is no problem through dac~ 7-10. But for some reason the maximum channels available from pd is only 12. Trying to set this higher (using the -channels ... switch) results in an error stating that an invalid number of channels have been set. Therefore I can't access the reverb channel on the card wich in other software turns up as channel 13-14.

Is there a reason why the reverb channels don't show up in pd. Can I work around this problem in any way. (reverb and other effects provided by the card would be really nice to have access to as a separate outport, as it works in for example cubase or reason)

Thanks

/Olof _________________________________________________________________________________

Olof Bendt - Researcher/Developer Smart Studio - The Interactive Institute +46-8-783 24 96