Thanks for opening this separate thread. Can I please ask you to provide a screenshot of the Device Setup tab for the FireWire zone, specifically showing the Advanced section? It should look something like this:
Can you share a screenshot of the Device Setup tab and the Signal Path when music is playing? Are you using the “System Output” zone or are you using the DAC driver?
Thanks for sharing that screenshot, this is strange behavior indeed. Can I please ask you to do the following?
Manually send me a copy of your RAATServer logs folder, it’s located in a similar location as to the previous logs you sent, except instead of navigating to the Roon folder, please navigate to the RAATServer folder and zip those up.
Can you share a screenshot of what Audio Midi displays when you select the Firewire zone and click on “Format”? The screenshot should show the following:
I’m sorry for personal matters.
I have to give a funeral because there is something sad about my family.
I would like to cooperate on multi-channel issues, but it may not take time.
The trial license is about to expire, so I thought I would buy it, but it seems to wait until next month.
Sorry to hear about the sad news, my condolences. I have forwarded the information you provided above to the technical team and am awaiting some feedback from them regarding the issue. I will be sure to let you know once I have further news.
I appreciate your patience while I had a chance to discuss this behavior further with the technical team.
Based on the screenshots, your Firewire zone is using multiple streams to perform the multi-channel playback, meaning each of the streams is “seen” as 2-channel outputs.
At the present time, Roon is not able to support these types of output streams, however, we do have an active ticket with the dev team to see if this would be possible in a future build of Roon.
I can’t comment on a timeline of when we this ticket will be reviewed, and until it has been reviewed your multi-stream zone will only be able to output 2 channel content.
It means that it cannot be realized with the current Roon design.
However, since Audirvana is capable of multi-channel, and there are multiple music files in multi-channel, I would be happy if you could consider using Roon.
As I mentioned, we are actively investigating what can be done here and there is a ticket pending review by the devs. I can’t comment on when this will be reviewed, but we are interested in investigating possible improvements in this area of the app. Thanks!