Published April 5, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.59348/djvsd-9d139

A missing audio hardware device

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  • 1. Birkbeck, University of London, English and Humanities

On Mac OSX there is a really neat feature: the ability to create an "aggregate audio device" that chains multiple soundcards into a single virtual device. This essentially lets you expand your inputs and outputs indefinitely. You can do a similar thing with Jack on Linux and with ASIO4All on Windows, although with variable levels of success.

My question is: where is the hardware device that will do this? It would be amazing to have a thunderbolt or USB C device that could aggregate any class-compliant audio interface device into a single interface. Please someone make this.

A missing audio hardware device was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve on April 06, 2019.

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On Mac OSX there is a really neat feature: the ability to create an "aggregate audio device" that chains multiple soundcards into a single virtual device. This essentially lets you expand your inputs and outputs indefinitely. You can do a similar thing with Jack on Linux and with ASIO4All on Windows, although with variable levels of success. My question is: where is the hardware device that will do this?

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https://doi.org/10.59348/djvsd-9d139
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https://eve.gd/2019/04/06/a-missing-audio-hardware-device/

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2019-04-05T00:00:00Z
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2019-04-05T23:00:00Z