[Gllug] Soundcards with hardware mixing

[Russell Howe]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:52:05PM +0100, Huw Lynes wrote:
> 
> Annoyingly creative have discontinued the excellent emu10k1 chipset. We liked
> it because the OSS drivers for it would take advantage of it's hardware mixing
> capabilities so you could run several sound sources straight to /dev/dsp
> without having to deal with software sound mixers like esd or arts.
>
> Anyway does anyone know of a soundcard with equivalent functionality?

No, but take a look at dmix - it's part of ALSA and does mixing of
multiple streams in the kernel driver itself, which is presumably a
little more efficient than doing it in a userspace process.

That said, it behaves rather oddly for me.

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