Thanks for the tip, it seems that an Audigy 2 NX may be usable after all, even though I'm not on OSX--there's probably something similar for other OSes. I'd agree that this is a pretty important limitation. I'd love to try coding something to fix this if somebody would point me to the resources I'd need.
-Ian
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [PD] Audio trouble (2 in 6 out refused) - Mac OS X From: pdlist@jlndrr.net Date: Sat, April 10, 2004 11:05 am To: "Ian Smith-Heisters" heisters@0x09.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Hi,
1 - I just tryed with Soundflower, a virtual CoreAudio soundcard for
OS X, wich gave me 16 in - 16 out (all "fake"). So I choosed SoundFlower as my 6 inputs, and my USB 5.1 Box as my 6 output. It works now!! (but I lost my inputs until i found some routing
app.)
2 - For my second problem (multiple inputs from multiple soundcards),
if someone know of a little intermediary app (for OS X, coreAudio) that
will allow me to reroute as this:
[2x8 in w/8 cheap sound boxes]-> [some routing app ; 16 out w/SoundFlower]-> [PD 16 in w/SoundFlower]
-- By the way, don't everybody think that this is an important limitation of PD? I heard of Jack, but it seem that it don't work well
on Mac OS X, plus I don't really understand how it will get over the 1
soundcard limitation.
Is there some plan to have PD manage more than one sound input device at a time?
Anyway, it's a pleasure to begin to work with PD, a software supported
by such a big community, with a lot of very responsive and passionate people! jln
Le 9 avr. 04, à 19:02, Ian Smith-Heisters a écrit :
From what I've heard on this list, portaudio (PD's sound engine) does
not allow more ouputs than there are inputs. This is from an email from one of the portaudio developers. There may be some workarounds available, depending on the card's chipset and what open source drivers are available for it (try kxproject and emu101 or something like that). I was about to buy an Audigy 2 NX, but I'm holding off until I know whether there is a workaround possible. Please let me know if you figure it out.
-Ian
Hi all,
Two sound card issues that you may resolve (I use the stable
package
from Hans for Mac OS X):
1 - I've got an annoying problem with my audio settings: I have an
USB
5.1 box, wich work natively with core audio, but if I try to set as
2
input / 6 output it gave me the following error:
error: portaudio: number of input and output channels mustmatch
if I try to "lie" to PD, setting 6 in / 6 out, I logically got:
Error number -9999 occured opening portaudio stream Error message: Invalid number of channels.Is it a known PD issue? Or is it an OS X issue?
2 - Is there a way to use multiple sound interface simultaneously
with
PD. I have a project where I would like to gather the input (very basically : sound/no sound) from dozens of sound inputs.
Thanks to all for the riche information I have found here, and
special
thanks to all the developpers and packagers!
jln
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:50:57PM -0700, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
Thanks for the tip, it seems that an Audigy 2 NX may be usable after all, even though I'm not on OSX--there's probably something similar for other OSes. I'd agree that this is a pretty important limitation. I'd love to try coding something to fix this if somebody would point me to the resources I'd need.
does anyone know if portaudio v19 allows a mismatching number of ins and outs? cant find anything that says it does, but they do claim you can now transparently mix & match various APIs (say a few outputs from ASIO, a few from MME, or a few Jack a few CoreAudio, etc...) across multiple cards, and a new built-in blocking i/o (right now pd has its own wrapper on top of pablio which itself is a wrapper to some portaudio binnis...)
-
carmen -
Ian Smith-Heisters