Greetings fellow tiny-box-connectors

It looks like I may have a chance to perform soon using my PD patches I've been writing, but in order to o so, I ight have to solve a hardware issue first. My laptop has no D/A interface besides the headphone jack, which won't cut the mustard for performace. It also seems prudent to save CPU cycles by offloding mixing functions to hardware (thereby allowing aux sends et cetera). So what I will need is a peice of hardware that can recieve 4, 6, or 8 discrete channels, probably via firewire, and either can output four or more to a mixer, or has built-in mixing capacities including pans, aux sends, maybe built-in effects / EQ / et cetera. DOES SUCH A THING EXIST?!?

cheers

matt

Oh, and, if it works with PureData....... that is a big PLUS

There's an tiny little Edirol mixer that has built in USB2 or Firewire for just that job, but I think it's only 2 out 2 in. Expect to pay about $150. The cheaper alternative is one of those new USB2 audio dongles.

Actually the M-Audio USB box looks like the best buy...
http://www.dv247.com/invt/22616/