i had no problem with a echo audiofire12 card in ubuntu playing 12 tracks through jack
this card can be chained for 24 tracks (or more perhaps) you need firewire 2012/5/17 András Murányi <[email protected]> > > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Rick Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Andr?s, >> >> By Independent audio I meant audio generated from a pd patch or other >> computer application and diffused across the array of speakers, ie. not >> having all the speakers limited to playing the same sound like a PA system >> in a roller skating rink. >> >> In general I was asking more of a hardware question: madi cards etc. >> >> As for software I've just learned that pd is limited to 32 channel dacs. >> I guess networking several instances of pd will give you all the channels >> you need. >> >> cheers, >> Rick >> > > OK, seems IOhannes already mentioned this in more comprehensive context: > Wave Field Simulation. There are lots of papers out there, like this one > from last year's AES conference: > http://www.mattmontag.com/media/2011/10/AES-131-e-brief-Montag-Wave-Field-Synthesis-by-Multiple-Line-Arrays.pdf > > I also doubt that Pd would be the best tool for this... networked > computers may have a latency that just messes up all the precise timing. I > guess you will need something timecoded, and/or low latency hardware, the > latter possibly being so called "processors" or "speaker drivers" which are > DSPs specifically designed to drive speaker arrays. > > András > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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