[PD] Surround sound systems?

[Benjamin ~ b01]

hello,

we succefully use a Raspberry pi under raspbian to play a 5.1 audio file
threw hdmi with a specific device, see
https://ressources.labomedia.org/expo_noirlac#diffusion_audio_51_-_raspberry_hdmiextractor
(in french)

it was with omxplayer, but I imagine it can work with pd as well

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b

On 29/04/2019 21:51, Pall Thayer wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I did manage to find a forum post somewhere by
> someone who got this scenario to work under windows with the ASIO4all
> driver. I'm running Linux Mint but have a Windows partition if I ever
> need it. I'll be sure to post back and let people know once I've
> gotten an opportunity to try it out.
>
> Pall
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 8:12 AM Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com
> <mailto:danomatika at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>>     On Apr 27, 2019, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at
>>     <mailto:pd-list-request at lists.iem.at> wrote:
>>
>>     I'm wondering, if I simply connect
>>     my laptop to it via an HDMI cable and set Pd to use HDMI for
>>     audio output,
>>     will I automatically have the ability to send specific channels
>>     of audio to
>>     any one of the 7 speakers?
>
>     This should work.
>
>>     Or would it require additional hardware or
>>     software? If so, what?
>
>     Probably not. It depends more on the hardware and any special
>     drivers that might be required to use it with your OS. Pd only
>     talk to the sound devices that are given to it by the OS. We have
>     used Pd with RME MADI interfaces at work which address 64 or 128
>     channels.
>
>     Note, that you get the "raw" channels directly. Surround or
>     ambisonic mixing is up to you.
>
>     --------
>     Dan Wilcox
>     @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
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>
>
>
>
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