On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Robert Rolf wrote= : > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Josh Koffman wrote= : > >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Robin Bussell >> wrote: >> > Does anyone know of an audio playback device that can take >> digital audio files on some sort of solid state memory (SD, CF, whatever= ) >> and play back at least three tracks simultaneously? >> > This is for firework display use, with stereo music and one track of >> timecode in a proprietary FSK-esque format (very tolerant of bad audio >> quality apparently) for the firing system. >> > No time to make anything I'm afraid so I'm wondering if anyone here >> knows of a home studio gizmo or similar that will do the trick. All of t= he >> "portastudio" type devices I've seen so far only do single stereo mixdow= n >> output, bah! >> > Stereo with separate synthesised SMPTE out would do if need be, as I >> believe the desk will ingest SMPTE too. >> >> Just go to your local music store and look at M-Audio, and other > multi-track musician gear. > Any of the 'semi pro' desktop music recording systems would work. 4-to 32 > channels > on your computer. Uses USB or Firewire to link to the In/out device > (S/PDIF, balanced, unbalance, > SMPTE, etc.) > > Some of the software editing tools can do 8 channel sound card output wit= h > time code. > > How much money do you have to spend? Low hundreds to thousands. Turnkey. > > Robert > http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/Multichannel.a= spx Search also for 'surround sound player'. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .