> what was the first commercial multichannel sound card I don't know what the first was, but in 2000 I used an Echo Layla 24 to put together an 8-channel system with an old 100 MHz Pentium PC (Barely enough CPU power. I had to trim the OS to get it to work in real time). Before the Layla24 there was a Layla20 (just called the Layla), introduced in 1997. Before that I used two CardDeluxes strapped together to get 4-channel I/O in a PC. Driver support wasn't great.
----- Original Message ---- From: Miguel Negrao <miguel.negrao-li...@friendlyvirus.org> To: Surround Sound discussion group <sursound@music.vt.edu> Sent: Mon, January 21, 2013 9:24:06 AM Subject: [Sursound] Maximum number of output channels possible in one single pc today ? Hi Does anyone know the answer to this question ? With 3 RME HDSPe MADI FX it appears to be possible to have 576 channels of output. Would the pci-e bus be able that amount of data ? Has anyone ever built such a system ? I’m asking because I wanted to know what was the maximum theoretical number of channels possible in one pc today vs to around 1997, which appeared to be 24 (3x DIGI32/8). Also, does anyone know what was the first commercial multichannel sound card (that could be used by any windows app) ? I see that the RME DIGI32/8 with 8 channels output was launched in 1997 for windows 95 and NT. best, Miguel http://www.friendlyvirus.org/miguelnegrao/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
