[Octal-dev] stereo machines : design question.

[Vivien Guillet]

What is the reason for choosing stereo input/output for machines ? I think 
I can lead to serious limitations.
1. "common" machines. Yes, there is always a workaround, using a two chanel 
mixer but I undertood octal machines were planed not to be to elementary. 
Let's considere a stereo vocoder, for instance. If we want a stereo output, 
we will have to use two mono vocoders machines and a complicated route scheme.
2. Mixers and diffusion. As we read here these days, there are many 
not-so-trivial ways to mix signals. With the stereo design, i can not write 
a more than two tracks mixer as a machine. And what about a height tracks 
diffusion, often used in concrete music ?

So, what is the reason for having only stereo machines ?

Vivien