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Martin Paul Eve

Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and Technical Lead of Knowledge Commons at MESH Research, Michigan State University

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A missing audio hardware device

Cite as: Martin Paul Eve, "A missing audio hardware device", https://eve.gd, , https://doi.org/10.59348/djvsd-9d139.

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.