[Openal] 7-speaker sound with Mac for auditory research?

[William Stewart]

Currently, the Mac OS X version of openal only supports stereo, 4 and  
5.0 output configurations - any more channels than 5 and you would  
just hear the silence as you are.

Bill

On 13/07/2007, at 1:39 PM, Matthew Tata wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My thanks to everyone who has provided help here in the past.   
> Following your advice, I'm trying to port a bunch of windows  
> auditory experiments we do in our lab over to mac by using an  
> external firewire interface rather than a sound card.   I've got an  
> M-Audio Firewire 410 and Creative S750 speakers plugged into chs  
> 1-8 on the back of the interface.  The AudioMIDI utilitity can send  
> sounds to every channel fine.  It is set to 7.1.  We've got some  
> OpenAL code that should be using all the speakers, but the back two  
> seem not be be used.  Also the example application that we  
> downloaded (with the monkey and the electricity and the car etc) is  
> not using the back two speakers.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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