> this multiple open sounds rather silly (no offense). I mean, if > I want to record from exactly input channel two, I'd have to open > channel 1 first, for no reason whatsoever. On our mixing desk we can assign whatever channels we like to each of the eight busses, so this isn't a problem. But failing that, you could always re-patch... Seriously though, ALSA is the way to go for multichannel. The only reason we use OSS emulation is that Audacity doesn't support ALSA natively yet, and Ardour isn't available to us mere end users. Cheers! Daniel
