Hey guys,
I am going to use this sound card
http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/FireWire/AudioFire12/index.php
to manage up to 12 speakers indipendently by PD (Windows OS).

Do you think it could be compatibile/visibile by PD?
If I install it on the machine with the related driver it should be OK?

Otherwise do you have some suggestion for an external sound card to manage up to 10 speaker that is "surely"compatible with PD?

thanks a lot,
diego

Hi,
I have here the Echo Audio Fire 12 sound card. With PD I can only use 2 channels, I can't use the other 10 channels (by dac~ 3, 4,5 and so on).

With the standard (MMIO) driver I can select the card, I can set the channel number (12), but I can hear sound only by the first 2 channels (e.g. dac~3 doesn't work)

With the ASIO drivers, if I select 12 channels in the ASIO menu I can't hear anything from any channel. If I set 2 channel on the menu, I can use the first two channels.

Any suggestions?!

Thanks a lot

Ok, I think I found the solution it seems that multichannel audio work with ASIO, but I have to select the item "ASIO Echo FireWire" (I think ASIO AudioFire driver provided by ECHO)

Dear all, I just bought an echo audio fire pre8 and for some reason when I try to set it up in the Audio tab of Pure Data, even PD detects it (but only 2 channels at a time instead of all when I try to specify the number of channels (while ASIO echo Firewire is checked) PD freezes. Any idea why? 'Cause I'm at a loss, and guess what? The openinng for the show is TOMORROW!