Trying to playback 32 channels to ASIO device

[Gale Andrews]

Audacity currently only supports mono/stereo playback.
Multi-channel playback is one of the highest rated feature requests, but currently we don't have a developer to work on it.
I've added your vote for this feature.

Thanks so much for the clarification.
Would it be possible to add this information to the ASIO section of the wiki or in the FAQ please?

When the wiki says Audacity supports ASIO (when recompiled), to me that implies both recording and playback.

ASIO is not necessarily multi-channel. Other hosts than ASIO (such as Windows WASAPI) can enable multi-channel recording in some devices. So I don't especially want to add to the Wiki ASIO page about multichannel playback.

I added a brief FAQ "How can I play or export multi-channel (surround sound) files?" which will be in the next (2.1.2) release of the Manual. I think users do (just about) ask often enough about multi-channel playback or export to justify a FAQ. In fact users tend to assume because they see only mono/stereo playback in Audacity and a default warning about mixing down to stereo that it can't export multi-channel files.


Gale

[steve]

I think users do (just about) ask often enough about multi-channel playback or export to justify a FAQ.

As a general point (rather than specific to ASIO), I agree.