Hello,

i'm very afraid, i want buy a sound card 5.1. USB for run Pure Data but i don't know what sound card 5.1.

So, can i use a sound card USB with a diferent number of inputs and outputs in Pure Data?

of course you can use many ins and outs in pd , depending on your hardware.

but are you sure you wanna go to a usb card? you should prefer a firewire card or even a pci card. for stability, latency ...

for puredata you can't have a defined 5.1 card. you can have 6outs but you have to manage everything about the audio routing.

@mobil12 said:

for puredata you can't have a defined 5.1 card. you can have 6outs but you have to manage everything about the audio routing.

I realise that this is a bit of an old thread - but hey!

5.1 usb cards seem like a good idea because they cost about a 5th of the nearest outboard audio interface.
Just to clarify - do you (or anyone else that can fill me in) mean that you get 6 dac outlets at line level if you plug a 5.1 device in?