Hi list,

I have been investigating about those audio inputs problems and here comes what I found:

• I have downloaded the pd 0.37t4src directory for Linux or OSX from

Miller' s page.

• I have place it under /usr/local/ and I have done ./configure, make

and make install.

• having no audio card but the built in device I have started pd with

'pd'.

• I have then open the testtone.pd: the outputs works fine but I have

no inputs at all. The hardware works, to test it I do a 'play through in My Audio set up from OSX)

Now, with a sound card. I have tried a 828Motu and Hammerfall DSP. With both: -With the Motu I get the problem of having only 8 channels shown( my ADATs are switched on). -The testtone.pd seems to send to the outputs but does not receive anything from the inputs of the card. -If I do a pd -channels 8, I get the following: Error number -9997 occured opening portaudio stream Error message: Invalid device ID. And I don' t get any sound in or out of pd.

if I compile the latest version of PAv18 with a PD tree 0.36. I get all my 18 channels but the problem of missing inputs remains.

Now Phil Burk have checked PA v18 (latest version) and here is what he has:

I drove over the Berkeley and ran some tests on his MOTU 828. The Mac was a recent G4 PowerBook. I used the "debug_multi_in.c" program and could not reproduce any problems with input. I tried opening 2,3,4,5,8,10,18 channels. It always worked fine. I tried it with ADAT enabled and disabled. I also tried "patest_wire.c" and "patest_record.c". in all cases input worked fine.

I always wanted to ask: When installing pd, does something else apart from the pd directory itself, get touched, changed or created anyhow by the installation ?

I hope this will help. Regards Alex