8 channel sound

[mroz]

Hi,
I have a few questions regarding my school project. Some of these are already posted here without clear solution, but their topics are quite old, so maybe in the newest version they are possible.

- I'm working on some kind of 8 channel sound player.
- Is possible to directly control volume of sound channels independently?
- Is possible to send one mono audio file to only one channel?
       i.e.  sound.wav -> Front Left
             play.wave -> Rear Right   etc.

IMO OpenAL sould be able to do this, but I'm not sure if it can be done with java and lwjgl.
Thanks for any hints and help

P.S. If somebody have some resources or tutorials about 8 channel sound in java I'd be very happy.