Issues when using several inputs on Motu Ultralite/OSX setup
I made a thread about this issue here: http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31032 . Kassen suggested that I send an email here, thinking that this might require some insight into RTAudio (not sure myself what it is). My Motu Ultralite runs ChucK applications perfectly, as long as I don't bother configuring audio channels, making do with having sound output only coming at the main outputs, and sound input from the MacBook Pro's built-in input or microphone. The problems start when I try to route to other outputs or want to use the Ultralite's inputs. After a bit of trial-and-error, I managed to get ChucK to do what I want to do (more or less) by using this command line to start the program: chuck --adc4 --in8 --out8 test.ck Here's the test code I have been using: adc.chan(6) => dac.chan(0); adc.chan(7) => dac.chan(1); while (true) { 1::day => now; } This will route audio from inputs 7 and 8 to outputs 1 and 2 (not the main outputs - if I want to hear the sound from the ChucK app I need to physically connect the 1 and 2 output to another input on the sound interface). A curious thing here is that if I start like this instead: chuck --adc4 --in8 --out6 test.ck // 6 outputs instead of 8 I get a mangled sound (sounding a bit like a sample rate or bandwidth mismatch - check the sound sample that I attached at the electro-music.comthread), and rather than just coming out of outputs 1 and 2 (as they do when I use the previous command line), the sound appears at all eight analog outputs on the Ultralite (according to the hardware meters on the Motu). If I try --out4 I get sound on outputs 1,2,,5,6,7, and 8. Another thing: if I leave out the output option altogether (i.e. take away "--out8"), I get a mangled sound as before, but only on the main output. I've also seen stuff like getting sound on every second output (1,3,5,7) for some option, though I can't seem to reproduce that now. I think I can work with what happens on my first example, but I'm still a bit curious as to what is going on with these options, and why --out6 causes the sound to behave radically different from --out8. I've checked my drivers - the Ultralite firmware is up to date and I think the OSX drivers are too. I'm running ChucK 1.2.1.2. I might have to leave my Motu for a week, so i might not be able to test stuff right away, if anyone comes up with something. /Stefan -- Release me, insect, or I will destroy the Cosmos!
Stefan; I made a thread about this issue here:
http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31032 . Kassen suggested that I send an email here, thinking that this might require some insight into RTAudio (not sure myself what it is).
That's the library for sound in& out that we use. It's cross-platform and supports different interfaces on those platforms. My reason for suggesting it was the strange thing that happened when you switched to multiple channels with your "main" outputs no longer carrying the signal. To me that's quite strange but I can't say whether that might be related to your real issue. It's hard to identify what exactly is going wrong from your audio file, it's a very weird sort of distortion but doesn't sound like plain clipping to me; the sound seems too dynamic for that. Yours, Kas.
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