Hi,

I'm wondering if I wanted to add for example drum, bass and guitar to create a PD track, how can I get around this if I only have two output channels on my sound card.

Cheers!

Hi,
try VisualTracker (http://code.google.com/p/visualtracker/). It has built-in channel routing system.
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Thanks for the reply - it's a great patch! Although I'm wondering with something like this (or any patch with multiple instruments/sounds) would all the tracks be sent to the same dac~ object?

Try using jack! It's nearly always the answer to more complex audio setups. You can just specify the number of output channels you want in the audio settings tab.

cheers for the reply but the hardware is not the problem, I'll elaborate.

Within pure-data I'll be using one real life guitar, I want to apply various effects, for example hearing an octave above what I'm playing whilst also being able to hear the original octave - in real time. Would I send the original and the new octave to the same dac~ object within pure data to be able to hear them both clearly?

Thanks

This is just summing digital signals like every audio application does. Of course you should watch your levels to see you're not clipping the outputs. But if you put for instance a [tanh~] object just before your [dac~] you will always avoid physical clipping. A [hip~ 5] will take away any dc that resides in the signal.

thank you so much, that's exactly what I needed