[maxmsp] Aiff to Wave file conversion problem

I' m not sure if windows supports multichannel .wav files (I'm on a  
mac). But if yes, as I suppose, you could use SoundHack (free) to  
converting aiff multichannel to wav multich directly on the Mac and  
after read the files on pc.
ciao,
ric

>
> I have recorded some music in surround sound using MaxMSP on an  
> Apple Mac.  I am converting the program I am running to PC format.   
> I have converted the surround sound aiff file to a wave file in  
> order for the PC to understand it.  To do this I simply re-recorded  
> the aiff from an sfplay~ object into an sfrecord~ object.  The  
> resulting file works fine on the Apple Mac but the PC doesn't  
> recognise it.  The PC does recognise a stereo version but not the  
> surround sound version.  Why doesn't the PC recognise the wave  
> file?  ...what can I do to overcome this problem?
>
>  Furthermore, the PC has recognised a brief surround sound test  
> file (wave) I created whereby I recorded four separate  
> distinguishable sounds into the four respective channels using four  
> separate sfplay~ objects into one sfrecord~ object.  For some  
> strange reason the Pc recognised this file and played it back as  
> expected in surround sound.  The assumption I draw from this is  
> that sfrecord~ seems capable of saving a surround sound file in  
> wave format but only if the channels are recorded from separate  
> sfplay objects.  For some reason sfrecord~ does not like converting  
> an existing surround sound file from aiff to wave.  Do you know why  
> this might be?
> Would the problem lie inside the sfrecord~ object?
>
> I'd appreciate it if anybody can solve this problem as it's quite  
> urgent that I can convert from aiff to wave in order for a PC to  
> play the file back in surround sound.
>
> Thanks.
>
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