[linux-audio-user] Ardour in linux Journal....AGAIN...

[Jamie Guinan]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:41 -0500, Jamie Guinan wrote:
> 
> > As I understand it, the 4 analog inputs + 2 SPDIF inputs divide into 2 
> > channels (left/right) each, so you could record 12 tracks at once.  But 
> > you could also think of it as 6 channels with left/right pan on each.
> 
> No.
> One input = one channel. Don't confuse balanced with stereo.

Right.

And each input (4 analog, 2 digital) can be sent independently to the L/R 
channels in the digital mix.  So I thought it would be possible to record 
12 channels of audio, each pair containing a L/R mix of the 6 total 
inputs, as in,

 $ arecord  -c 12 -f S32_LE -r 48000 -D hw:1 output.wav

-Jamie