Hi Kassen and all,
Has anybody gotten the multi-channel stuff to work with one of the EMU cards that use Patchmix under XP?
A more general question: Who has gotten multi-channel in ChucK working under windows XP? What brands/models of soundcards? Multi-channel ChucK works fine for us under OS X (Edirol interface), but we have not been able to test it much on XP or Linux. Perhaps knowing what else works (or not) will help us learn more about the EMU, Patchmix situation under XP.
I dug through a stack of online posts and it seems that in the past these cards had issues with multi channel DX but right now Winamp is set to "primary sound driver" and does a perfect job of playing a six channel wave file while ChucK --probe doesn't get beyond 2 channels on any of the devices it sees. I use a1616m but I think the drivers are basically the same for all of them.
Does winamp have the option of using DirectSound as the output (the primary sound driver belongs to winmm, I think)? Best, Ge!