Bradon,

Try running pd.exe -listdev to take a look at the audio devices available to Pd. If you're using ASIO you should do -asio -listdev. Then in your .bat, or in the command line specify -audiodev 1,3,5 (or whatever numbers and order you want) according to the numbers that -listdev gave you, which should be the stereo pairs of your card (as I remember my m-audio quattro was like that).

I do seem to remember some problem with the numbers a while back in Windows, though, where they were 1 out of place, so that a device listed by -listdev as "0" was actually -audiodev 1. But I haven't used Pd in windows in a while, so that may have been fixed.

Hope that helps,

David __ _ _ _ _ __ ___ _ ___ __ _ _ _ ____ __ Music wants to be free http://sintheta.org

Bradon Webb wrote:

hello,

can anyone tell me what the proper syntax for getting pd to recognize all my output channels from my soundcard. I recently got a 410 m-audio firewire card with 10 outputs. This is how I have my .bat file configured for channels.

set PD_CHANNELS= -channels 6 %PD_CHANNELS%

I don't necessarily need all 10 outputs right now, just 4. What I am getting is output on channels 1 & 2 from my old built in soundcard, plus two output channels 1 & 2 from my firewire card. (which is actually the 3 & 4 output within pd) and there is no output on channels 5 & 6. I assume there may be a way to prioritize the firewire card over the built in soundcard and to specify the use of 4 channels with the firewire.

do I need a command within the .bat to set the audio device to the m-audio?

thanks, bradon