[PD] OSX Intel: status of M-Audio / MOTU multichannel in/out support?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:25 PM, marius schebella wrote:

> Damian Stewart wrote:
>> marius schebella wrote:
>>> I think m-audio had driver issues with 10.5 for a long time. but  
>>> since
>>> 1-2 weeks they seem to be solved (but I have not tested)
>>> http://www.m-audio.com/news/en_us-1267.html
>>> marius.
>>
>> but m-audio cards generally work all right with 10.4 + Pd?  
>> multichannel?
>
> sorry, I don't have an m-audio card, I only followed some  
> discussions on
> the max list.
> I would say, if m-audio works for other apps, then it also works  
> for pd
> and pd does support multichannel, so should not be a problem..
> marius.

I just setup a sound installation using Pd-extended 0.40.3-20080603  
running on Mac OS X 10.5.2/Intel using a MOTU multichannel card.  We  
used the drivers on the included CD and it 'just worked'.  I didn't  
really try for low latency tho, I set Pd's buffers to 20ms.

.hc


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