[Openal] Question about Motu 828mkIII hardware

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Daniel PEACOCK <dpeacock at creativelabs.com>wrote:

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> Which OS are you using?  What ever it is, as long as it lets you enumerate
> (discover) each of the soundcards and allows you send audio to it, it
> should be possible to send both soundcards an audio stream from the same
> application.   On Windows this is definitely possible.
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> (One of) the tricky part(s) is going to be getting the audio to start
> playing at the same time (or close enough to the same time) on the 2
> soundcards so that you don't get some noticeable delays as a sound pans
> from a speaker controlled by soundcard A to a speaker controlled by
> soundcard B.
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> Once you have defined a speaker layout and know which channels of which
> soundcard refer to each location you can create your 12.2 mix and send each
> 6.1part to the appropriate soundcard.
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Hum... Jason said that, I quote :

"the implementation will assume a typical 6.1 speaker layout (a la Dolby
Surround EX) for both contexts"

But from your statement, it seems possible (and even easy) to define a
custom layout for my speakers, or am I wrong ?

For more details :
- the OS, the best would be to have a Linux/Windows/MacOS X compatibility,
but I think that the sound card is limited to Windows and Mac OS.
- the layout for my speakers : they are all attached to the roof of a room,
and I need to spacialize the sound depending on actions occuring in my room
(for example, if I want people to come to the left part of my room, sounds
from this part will call them).

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