Re: [sc-users] new to sc, and a question

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Josh, welcome!

You do realize that sc is going to take over your brain. It's an alien plot to render electronic musicians useless to society :)

On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:10 PM, Josh wrote:

> I have a MOTU traveler, but I can't seem to figure out how to
> switch sc over to use it!  I'm pretty sure I could switch the
> default audio in/out (I'm using Mac OS X) to the traveler, but
> that seems like cheating, and wouldn't allow me to use more than
> 2 ins and outs.

Actually, switching the default device (or the device in sound preferences) is not cheating. :)

There is also a device parameter in the server options:

myServer.options.device = /* something */

... but I've never used it and it isn't well documented (meaning, well, it isn't documented at all :).

When you boot the server, it will give you a list of "streams" available on the device. You can turn the streams on and off individually using:

// use only the first "stream" which in MOTU land is a stereo pair
myServer.options.inputStreamsEnabled = "10000";
myServer.options.outputStreamsEnabled = "10000";

... where myServer is a server object. The default is to use all the streams. The server by default hooks into the first 8 channels each of input and output. You can change that before server boot using

myServer.options.numInputBusChannels = some number;
myServer.options.numOutputBusChannels = some number;

Server.default is the currently active primary server. When you launch sc, the interpreter variable s gets assigned to the local server (Server.local).

hjh

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