opening audio 2 outs - was: Various pd/gem Qs

[Miller Puckette]

Sorry, Pd on NT and Linux/OSS only deals with consecutively numbered output
devices.  It sounds like a good idea to generalize this; I'll stick it on
my (long) doilst...

cheers
Miller

> Hi Miller, hi all,
> 
> is there a similar behavior with audio outs in the WinNT version of Pd? I experienced problems trying to open two audio outs for four-chanel-output. I need to
> open device #2 and #4.
> If I start Pd with only specifying '-outchannels 4' pd tries to open device #0 and #0+1. Saying e.g. '-soundoutdev 2' pd tries to open devices #2 and #2+1.
> 
> Is there a way to tell Pd to open #2 and #4 ?
> 
> thanks
> Olaf