[Portaudio] Multichannel cards?

[Ross Bencina]

Hi Raymond

I'm about to buy a 32 channel RME HDSPe MADI system for a project I'm 
working on. As far as I know this will work fine with PA/ASIO. If not I'll 
need to fix it. I expect it to work though -- I've had RME stuff in the past 
and it's allways worked fine, my brother runs an HDSP (non-MADI) in his 
studio and it plays well with PortAudio. It's high quality gear, and not 
cheap though. I need it for a turn key system that will run continuously so 
I don't really want to mess around with cheaper prosumer stuff.

I'd expect the Apogee products someone else mentioned to be a good option 
too. I'm going with RME because I've had good experiences in the past.

I considered MOTU, which I've also had good experience with in the past, but 
most of the options max out at 24 or 32 channels and for my project I need 
minimum of 32 channels.

I know there are other broadcast systems which can do up to 256 channels if 
you need to go that far I can make some enquiries. I'm pretty sure there's 
at least one AudioMulch (PortAudio) installation running that kind of 
channel count.

Ross.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond de Vries" <reedev at xs4all.nl>
To: "Portaudio Mailing List" <portaudio at music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Portaudio] Multichannel cards?


> Hi,
>
> I am actually more looking for PCIe cards for a PC.
>
> I found the RME cards for example. Does anyone have experience with these 
> when using them with portaudio? I have seen this message 
> http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-3068-portaudio-asio-drivers-compatibility-windows-only 
> It says "- the ReaRoute ASIO driver is blacklisted by portaudio (as of 
> v19) and therefore discarded..." but I don't have a clue what this would 
> mean. I cannot find such a piece of code in portaudio (neither v19 nor svn 
> head) so maybe I misunderstand things?
>
> The HDSPe MADI seems like a good multichannel card. Has anyone used such a 
> card with portaudio?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Raymond
>
>
>
> On 7/17/2010 8:14 AM, Robert Bielik wrote:
>> Raymond de Vries skrev:
>>>
>>> Are there other h/w solutions for multichannel recording?
>>
>> Maybe this would be something ? 
>> http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/symphony-system.php
>>
>> /Rob
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