Hello,

I would like to play four channels of signals to four independent
speakers from a computer (Mac preferred) through a "breakout" box such
as an M-Audio USB quattro. So far I have tried Audition on the PC side
and Intuem, Tracktion, Garage Band, and Logic Express on the Mac side.
Each one of these appear to "mix down" the output to a two channel
stereo. Does any one know of a mechanism of doing this without going
into the supra-grand domain of surround sound software?

Regards,
Sumit Dhar

wrote:
Hello,

I would like to play four channels of signals to four independent
speakers from a computer (Mac preferred) through a "breakout" box
such
as an M-Audio USB quattro. So far I have tried Audition on the PC
side
and Intuem, Tracktion, Garage Band, and Logic Express on the Mac
side.
Each one of these appear to "mix down" the output to a two channel
stereo. Does any one know of a mechanism of doing this without going
into the supra-grand domain of surround sound software?

Regards,
Sumit Dhar

You can't do that unless you have a box with atleast four separate
outputs.

Digidiesign 002 on OSX or at least the Audiomedia III on older Macs.
The Audio Meedia will require two out on Analog and two on S/PDIF.

A 001 box will also work on the older Macs.

You can also use MOTU and about 20 other setups available for both Mac
and PC

wrote:
Hello,

I would like to play four channels of signals to four independent
speakers from a computer (Mac preferred) through a "breakout" box
such
as an M-Audio USB quattro. So far I have tried Audition on the PC
side
and Intuem, Tracktion, Garage Band, and Logic Express on the Mac
side.
Each one of these appear to "mix down" the output to a two channel
stereo. Does any one know of a mechanism of doing this without going
into the supra-grand domain of surround sound software?

Regards,
Sumit Dhar

I'll second the recommendation for a used digi001. There might be
better interfaces out there... but I have one and I can say it has
worked without a problem for around 4 years now. This could have
changed over the years but when I fist bought the Digi001 it seemed
like the only software that would work with it was the protools LE that
it came packaged with. I haven't kept up with the interchanability of
hardware and software so this may no longer be an issue. Protools LE
5.X.X runs on OS9 and PT LE 6.7 runs in OSX. I haven't tried PT LE 6.7
for OSX so I can't comment on it. The hardware interface has multiple
inputs and outputs that can be assigned to individual tracks through
the software. Routing track 1 to analog output 1, track 2 to analog
output 2 and so on up to the 8th analog output playback is not a
problem.

All this can be found at Digidesign.com

What is your intended application?

Peter

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Hello,

I would like to play four channels of signals to four independent
speakers from a computer (Mac preferred) through a "breakout" box such
as an M-Audio USB quattro. So far I have tried Audition on the PC side
and Intuem, Tracktion, Garage Band, and Logic Express on the Mac side.
Each one of these appear to "mix down" the output to a two channel
stereo. Does any one know of a mechanism of doing this without going
into the supra-grand domain of surround sound software?

IME if you use Audition in mulitrack mode, load a session and press the play
button, that the recorded track(s) will play back via the playback
channel(s) you've assign.

IOW if I load an 4 track session, and assign playback channels 1-4 of my
Delta 1010 to tracks 1-4 of the session, then outputs 1-4 of the Delta will
play those tracks.

If this doesn't happen, then I know I messed something up in options, device
order preferences, playback devices.