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

[Pierre-Olivier Boulant]

Hi,
I could do something similar on a multichannel sound card going through 
ASIO4all on a Windows machine.
But the driver for the same sound card on Linux doesn't give all the 
channels easily at all. I haven't tried with MacOSX.
I used a Terratec aureon USB 5.1 mk2 (and 7.1).

The ASIO driver of Pd in 0.42.5 can be a bit tricky. I think the Pd-X 
0.43.1 solves a few issues there.

Good luck
Pierre-Olivier


On 05/03/2012 23:35, altern wrote:
>>> 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!