Hello,

Iain.Mott@cmis.CSIRO.AU writes:

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If I take a low cost sound card option - for example using two stereo sound cards in adjacent slots to get four channels - will this work? eg. if i use a prompt like: "pd -soundoutdev 0 -outchannels 4"

This is where card no. 1 is in device slot 0 and card no. 2 is in 1.

No, because they are not synced, so one card runs away sligthly, because the crystals (there should be ones) are not totaly equal, but

a) 4 channesl can be done with 1 PCI128, thanks guenter

and if you are good in soldering there is a trick:

b) synchronising the cards:

Take out one card as master and the others as slave by soldering out the crystals. and solder a shielded cable from the master card to the slave card.

NOTE: I have heard this is working, but maybe not with all kind of cards, so there is no garantuee of stability !!!!

mfg winfried