Hi everybody,
my name is Bassam, I'm a Master Student in IEM (GRAZ) and new here in this wonderful forum.

by the way, I think I'm doing well until now with self-learning in PD though your advices here but in fact I'm still beginner and I was always just a passive follower here

I'm preparing now a new Patch for my new Composition for ensemble and live electronics (min 9 Microphones for 9 instruments)
my question is:

Do I have to use an audio interface with more than 9 inputs or I'm able to use the soundflower patch to send the inputs trough 2 inputs

I feel like I'm not clear enough

I have an Audio Interface (Roland Firewire Fa 66) and I have main 2 inputs and an other 4 inputs but I don't like to use them, is it possible to use Multichannel mixer to get the signal from the instruments and to send them to my 2 main Channels on my audio interface, then to send this signal to the soundflower patch to separate them to 9 input Channels or I'm crazy to think in this way??

hope that any one can understand me and giving me some advices because I don't know how to tack 9 individual Instruments to send them to my patch and to control them

thanks friends for your advices

best, Bassam