hi mika

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 11:53 +0300, Mika Ristimäki wrote:

Hi again,

I've been searching the list archives even more and I've found several
posts that say that this can be done and that the instructions can be
found from the archives. However I haven't been able to find any
instructions. =) So any ideas how to do it in Windows XP? Sorry for
nagging, but I really like using Pd, but if there is not support for
my hardware I might have to change the software.

a friend of mine successfully used exactly the same setup on mac osx. she also used 12 mic inputs simultaneously in pd, which worked well over jackosx.

-Mika

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Hi all,

I have a problem how to use multiple audio devices in Pd. I tired to search the archives but didn't find anything useful. Anyway...

I have RME Fireface 800 audio interface and RME Octamic microphone pre-amplifier. Octamic is connected to Fireface with ADAT. I'm using Windows XP. I have connected 8 mics to Octamic and 4 mics to Fireface (it also has 4 mic level inputs). The problem is that I don't know how to get all 12 channels to work in Pd.

when I start Pd with -listdev, I get

audio input devices: 0. Live! Cam Optia AF (Mic)

1. Fireface Analog (1+2) MME
2. Fireface Analog (3+4) MME
3. Fireface Analog (5+6) MME
4. Fireface Analog (7+8) MME
5. Fireface Analog (9+10) MME
6. Fireface SPDIF MME
7. Fireface ADAT1 (1+2) MME
8. Fireface ADAT1 (3+4) MME
9. Fireface ADAT1 (5+6) MME
10. Fireface ADAT1 (7+8) MME
11. Fireface ADAT2 (1+2) MME
12. Fireface ADAT2 (3+4) MME
13. Fireface ADAT2 (5+6) MME
14. Fireface ADAT2 (7+8) MME
15. Fireface Analog (1+2)
16. Fireface Analog (3+4)
17. Fireface Analog (5+6)
18. Fireface Analog (7+8)
19. Fireface Analog (9+10)

I can have the 8 Octamic channels if start Pd with -audioindev 7 -inchannels 8. Or the 4 Fireface channel by -audioindev 4 -inchannels 4. But when I try to define both like this, -audioindev 4,7 -inchannels 4,8 pd gives an error "separate audio device choice not supported; using sequential devices."

-audioindev 4 -inchannels 12, does not work either.

can you elaborate that a bit? i am not too used to windows anymore, but iirc, using all mme devices sequentially, that are actually driven from the same card and from the same clock, is supposed to work well. you might already have tried that: what about accessing just _ALL_ inputs of the card? i don't know, where your octamic is connected to, adat1 or adat2. if it is on adat2, -audioindev 4 -inchannels 12 wouldn't work, since this would access actually the analog inputs and some adat1 inputs. try:

-audioindev 1 -inchannels 28

then the [adc~] numbers in pd are not continous, but this wouldn't cause any harm, would it?

roman

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