there are the streamin~/out~ objects in both the zexy and ggee(xt) xtrnls ... i had to use them at this last performance because i couldnt get the soundcards on two compaq pc's to work, so i had to stream their output to my laptop, mix and dac~-output it there. the streamin~ from zexy was disabled thou .. in version 0.5 (+?) .. anyhow, it basically worked although the streamin~ has got a few bugs, mainly that it gets confsued what its actually receiving ..

i was streaming 4 channels (2 from each pc) to the main receiver, but all which would arrive there were 3 channels max in whatever order i made the 'connect's

also, streamin~ likes to receive 'any' local signal .. i.e. you put an 'osc~ 220' somewhere, DONT connect it to dac~, then place a streamin~, connect it to dac~ and the sinewave should be there ..

i can see if/how its reproducible, but i ve had it a few times ..

so as soon as you manage to set up a tcp network over usb/firewire/ethernetz this should work ..

| i'm aiming to connect two pcs via medium/wide-band ports (like SCSI, | USB, FireWire or Ethernet) to transmit real-time streaming audio from one pc to | another, maybe from a sythesis-dedicated (running commercial and | experimental software) to a hdr one (running typical hdr software). This could | be easily achieved with common digital I/O soundcards, but *i | think* there are many reason not for use them: they're too | expensive , there may occur degradation (esp. if somebody tends to | save money... ;), and it sounds me a kind of nonsense encoding a digital | stream into a digital audio signal to encode it back again. | | i think of a "virtual device" that could be seen as a | normal audio in/out from every application running under Windows, | better if direct-x based. | | Is it possible to achieve that with pd objects? |
| have you got any suggestion, or references?