[Openal] Question about Motu 828mkIII hardware

[Jason Daly]

Daniel PEACOCK wrote:
>
>
> Hi Serge,
>
> If you are talking about panning sounds around a 12.2 speaker system that
> is being controlled by 2 different soundcards, that is beyond the scope of
> all the OpenAL implementations I know of.   OpenAL could be the interface
> to control something like this - but you would need a custom OpenAL device
> to actually handle the panning and rendering algorithms.
>   

I agree with Dan, I haven't heard of any implementations that do this, 
but OpenAL would be a perfect API to handle it. 

If you have the resources, you might be able to modify the OpenAL-Soft 
implementation to handle this case.  I don't think it would be *that* 
difficult, but it would take some work.  You'd have to somehow combine 
both devices into one "virtual" device, and then rework the panning 
algorithm to handle your particular speaker configuration.

Like I said, I don't know if you have the resources to do this, but it 
is possible in theory.

--"J"