[PD] Is "Audio Settings > Use Multiple Devices" available on Mac OSX?

[Santiago J. Barro Torres]

Hi Alexandros,

Yes, that works fine! That was what I was looking for.

I thank you all for your help.


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Set the number of channels in the Audio Settings and then use [adc~ 1 2]
> for the first two channels, [adc~ 3 4] for the other two etc. Whatever
> number you set as an argument to [adc~] will be the sound card's channel
> number, starting from one, but you first have to set that in the audio
> settings.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Santiago J. Barro Torres <
> santiagobarro at santiagobarro.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Miller and Daniel,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your answers. But I am not sure if we are talking about the
>> same thing.
>>
>> What is the relationship with the i.e. selected "input device" and the
>> object [adc~]? I guess that there is a mapping between the "outside
>> world" (either a physical sound card or a sound server) and Pure Data.
>>
>> Let's put a simple example with a single input device as single sound
>> card. Let's think that this sound card has lots of channels (i.e. 64
>> input/output channels). Is it (somehow) possible to have two [adc~]
>> objects (let's name them [adc0~] and [adc1~] for sake of simplicity)?
>> And say, that i.e. [adc0~] corresponds to sound-card0-channels-0-and-1
>> and [adc1~] to sound-card0-channels-2-3? (channels starting on 0).
>>
>> Sorry if this is a very simple question, but most Pure Data patches I
>> have seen deal just with single input / output and can't figure out how can
>> I work with more entities. And in order to make this question clear, we can
>> assume we only work with one sound card with lots of channels. And all
>> this, under Mac OSX.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Daniel Nigrin <dan at defectiverecords.com>wrote:
>>
>>> For OS X, use "Aggregate Devices."
>>>
>>> Go to Audio MIDI Setup, click the little "+" in the lower left corner,
>>> and select Create Aggregate Device.  This will allow you to group your
>>> various input and output devices, and have them presented to whatever
>>> software as a "single" device.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>> Dan
>>> --
>>> Dan Nigrin / Defective Records / http://defectiverecords.com
>>> CycliC, M185 & Klee Sequencers / MC-4 & MC-202 Hack / Audio Plugin
>>> Player / General MIDI Player / Major Malfunction
>>> Jack OS X / http://jackosx.com
>>>
>>> From: "Santiago J. Barro Torres" <santiagobarro at santiagobarro.com>
>>> Date: Sunday, February 16, 2014 1:57 PM
>>> To: <pd-list at iem.at>
>>> Subject: [PD] Is "Audio Settings > Use Multiple Devices" available on
>>> Mac OSX?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>>
>>> My name is Santiago, and I am an embedded software engineer. I have been
>>> playing around Pure Data for some time, and now I would like to further
>>> develop my skills on Music Design // Music Programming.
>>>
>>> I am working with three versions of pd: Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
>>> Currently, I am having a look at how to use several [adc~] and [dac~]
>>> (several input/output devices). In particularly I am doing some experiments
>>> using several external USB/FireWire sound cards.
>>>
>>> So my question is if somebody knows if this feature (using multiple
>>> devices) is available on Mac OSX. I have been configuring it on a Windows
>>> machine (under Media > Audio Settings > Use Multiple Devices), where I can
>>> select i.e. three input devices and two output devices. This button (Use
>>> Multiple Devices) doesn't seem to appear in the Mac OSX version of Pure
>>> Data, despite of several input/output devices being available!
>>>
>>> I have found some old threads dealing with this topic, but it doesn't
>>> seem to be a clear answer. Why is this option available in Windows and not
>>> in Mac OSX?
>>>
>>> I have done some research by myself and get this thing working, but
>>> without luck. If somebody here comes up with a good answer, I will be very
>>> grateful. So I thank you all for your time.
>>>
>>> Software Versions: I am using an "old" Intel Mac OS X 10.6.8 32-bit, and
>>> tried with pd vanilla (0.45.4, last version) and pd-extended (0.43.4, last
>>> version).
>>>
>>>
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>>
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