Hi. I'm looking for solutions regarding multi-channel panning. One possible lead I've found are the ambipan~ and ambicube~ objects by CICM,
found here- http://www.maxobjects.com/?v=libraries&id_library=116&PHPSESSID=d1bcf3a4e076b2b17000d7f062f89214
the package for different OS'es can be downloaded here- http://cicm.mshparisnord.org/
(I'm on windows)

I downloaded CICMTOOL_pdwin.zip but I'm having trouble getting it to work (I haven't really installed any externals before so I don't know what I'm doing wrong). I tried putting it in %appdata%/pd and %programfiles%/pd/extra but neither had any effect. I renamed the folder to 'cicm' and then edited pd-extended.bat to include " -lib cicm " but that didn't seem to have any effect either. Editing preferences and adding the path to that folder didnt change anything.

Whenever I open the included helpfiles, the objects in question appear with a red border. I tried adding [import cicm], didn't do anything... so I'm a bit lost. Any help is much appreciated. If anyone knows about multi-channel panning solutions that would be very welcome too.

I absolutely love [multiouts~] from the GMEM External Objects: http://www.gmem.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=317&Itemid=250

Here is the link for downloading: http://dev.gmem.org/_dwn/multiouts~_PD.zip

They work on Linux 32-bit, OS X and possibly Windows (I haven't tested). In case you are on Linux 64-bit, you would have to change the Makefile file and compile it yourself, but I did that for myself and here is the Linux 64-bit external already compiled multiouts~.pd_linux

Cheers,
Gilberto

Ok I got cicm to work, apparently the dll, help and c files needed to be in the main folder instead of sub-folders .... I also added a cicm-meta.pd file to the main folder. ( in %appdata%/roaming/pd/cicm )

suddenly I can't open my pd help browser anymore though ... getting a 'couldnt read directory' error
like this: http://i.imgur.com/OPkIugr.png

And thanks! Multiouts~ seems to work well....but now PD is crashing every time I'm working on it for more than 5 minutes ....sigh

The CICM tools has been developed 10 years ago, now we have the HOA library. You should have a look at it.
http://www.mshparisnord.fr/hoalibrary/en
Cheers

@alex_d Indeed HOA library is a stunning library which may be useful for what you want to do. As for the crashes with [multiouts~], I have never had that problem before, how and when is it exactly happening?

Thanks a lot, I'll check it out right away!

The freezing doesn't seem to be related to multiouts~, it just seems to happen sometimes randomly now. The patch still runs but I'm unable to click anything or switch to edit mode. I can click File> at the top, but when I try to save or do anything else it just doesn't respond. I can only kill the process.

Help > Pd Help browser also continues to give me this strange behaviour: http://i.imgur.com/OPkIugr.png

No idea how I managed to fuck up PD like this. Should I uninstall again and try to wipe it from the registry or something?

No idea how I managed to fuck up PD like this. Should I uninstall again and try to wipe it from the registry or something?

That's always easier than troubleshooting, and a lot of times this fixes the problem so I'd say why not? But that said, are you having troubles with every single patch or does this happen only with a specific project? Because if the latter is true, then it's likely not the fault of your installation.

I would suggest you to create a new thread for this freezing problem of yours, so it gets more visibility in the forum.