I’m making an instrument to control the sound spatialization between 4 loudspeaker for my composition 2 exam, but I can’t select all the 4 outputs in the audio settings “active audio output”. I can choose Output 1+2 or Output 3+4 but not both.
The standalone player only supports 2 outputs at a time. I don’t have a multichannel sound card to test for more than 2
But I can prepare a multichannel plugin for you. In this case you would export your instrument as a plugin, and then set it up to output to your four speakers inside a DAW of your choice. What platform are you on?
Maybe having an option in the Output to bypass JUCE’s sound control could be a good thing to have in the future. I mean, Csound already has working output modules with -odac.
It would be fantastic, I was reading now that @Maston had the same problem using 16 outputs! Could I use the same plugin? I’m working on my macbook pro El Capitan 10.11.6
ok, I did it, but I’ve a problem..This plugin is created to control the position of the sound between the four loudspeakers in real time, but if I load it into Audition or Ableton you can choose only 1 or 2, but not quadriphonic outputs.. what I’m doing wrong?
I’m not much of a Live guy, so I’m not sure I can be much help. I can try myself a little later on if I get a chance. Do you need to use Live? I find routing in Reaper much more straightforward, but I’m sure it can be done with Live too?
Me too, I use Live only to use Cabbage plugins live. And yes, unfortunately I had to control the spatialization using the plugin live following a score…ther’s no possibilities to use something like -odac as gsenna was suggesting? Because I find Cabbage standalone handier and powerful.
This is my csd, but open it only when you have time, I’ve to weeks before the exam…many thanks for your suggestions! Panning_05.csd (1.8 KB)
@gsenna makes a good point. And I did have this feature before. But it became a problem to maintain. Don’t worry, we’ll get something sorted out before the exam no matter what happens!!
I’ll take a look later at how to get this going, but it’s going to be tricky without a multi-out sound card.
p.s. I may have sourced a card. That’s the first step to fixing this!
I’ve checked with Reaper and I can output to four different speakers using a 4-channel Cabbage file. But your .csd file is not behaving correctly. It only sends output to 2. For some reason 2 tracks carry no signal?
That’s strange because I’ve used only space opcode to distribute the signal among the 4 channels using x/y coordinates and outq to send the signal to the outputs.
I get audio output to all four channels. Anyhow, I’m looking at the standalone player at the moment. Maybe we’re lucky and I find a fix before they throw me out of my office!
Can you try this version of Cabbage? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11301894/MultiCabbageOSXUniversal.pkg
It should allow you to use the standalone player in multichannel mode. It works for me here, but I only did a few simple tests. Let me know. I think it might be a solution that I can use across all platforms, but it needs testing first.
At the end of my paper
“Acknowledgements. A special thanks to Rory Walsh who release a quadriphonic version of Cabbage making possible the realization of this plugin.”