Hello,

I am now trying to mix down a eight channel ambisonic mix in PD for a eight channel concert.

Since I don't have any audio software which allow me to open 8 channel wave files, I have decided to use 8 [writesf~ 1] ... and now it became strange. I often get some message like ...bad descriptor... It is mostly random, sometime for this file, sometime for this other file ... is that me or what?

Also, when I try to erase the eight file in my windows explorer, I often get message like : opened by an other software ... but PD [writesf~] have all received [stop{ messages. Again, this is randomly hapenning ... is that me?

My last option, surely the most simple, is to use a sole [writesf~ 8] object and try to find an audio editor (freeware!) which open multichannel wave ... anybody know such freeware?

Thanks1!!

i had trouble with writesf~ losing a lot of recorded material when i changed files using soundfiler.

it seemed like opening new files with soundfiler was interrupting the writesf~ process or something.

it seems buggy to me. but i posted about this on the mailing list, and didn't get any useful replies.

I don't use soundfiler in my patch. It is builk like a Ambisonics render using readsf~ and writesf~. I don't hear anythin since their is no dac~.

After boging with this last night, I now use [writesf~ 8] and I use matlab to open the multichannel file + and a little Matlab program that I made to extract individual files ... but for 270Meg 8 channel file ... Matlab is also having memory trouble ...

So, finally, I am >>>really<<< looking for a freeware which can open multichannel wave files ... and save them as sperate wave file ....

Bye bye!