[PD] six sound outputs with sound blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

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>> Sorry--I have no good news for you... and perhaps this knowledge only
>> adds to your injury.  The ASIC in your sound card has many, many times
>> the potential that it actually gets used for--up to 10,000 MIPS on a
>> quad-core DSP and up to 128 channels.
>
>
> It's just normal that increasingly more powerful technology becomes generic
> so that it can be used in many more products so that it can sell more so
> that it can pay for its own development and cut down on the production
> costs... eventually we put supercomputers inside chequebook-sized boxes and
> call them « telephones ».
>
> The best you can do is write a distributed-computing virus that detects any
> such ASIC and hook it on some math problem such as trying to crack
> exterrestrial prime numbers and stuff... ;)

I see. so basically I could use this sound card to seach for life
across the universe but I cannot separate the ****** output channels.
great. not sure I have time to get another card on time. grrr...

thanks!