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<font size=3>At 04:38 PM 4/10/2002 +0100, Osland, CD (Chris) wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I've just started looking a bit
more seriously at multi-channel audio<br>
cards in the context of AG. One reason is a general interest in
spatial<br>
placement of sound (audio follow video to misuse a term!) and the<br>
other is as a way of underpinning the idea of a global gig.<br><br>
It appears that ALSA drivers cover a wider range of multi-channel<br>
cards than OSS, and happen to include a driver for the cards I have<br>
in my studio, the Korg 1212 I/O.</font></blockquote><br>
Cool. We've got a midiman delta 44 that we've played with some, but not
as much as we'd like :-).<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=3>Does anyone have
comments concerning how the ALSA drivers work<br>
in an AG context? I note that amongst the applications, there are
some<br>
files in .../mbone/rat/... that may be relevant. At this point I'm
only<br>
exploring audio under Linux, not Windows.</font></blockquote><br>
I ported rat to the 0.5 version of the ALSA drivers (auddev_alsa in the
rat distribution). I like the ALSA drivers much better than OSS, and only
partly because they're free. They are going to be the audio drivers in
the 2.6 linux kernel chain (they are there now in 2.5). Updating that
port to the 0.9 version would be a good thing.<br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=3>I don't want to pursue
possible use of these drivers - when we are quite<br>
happy with the OSS drivers - if there are any fundamental
problems.</font></blockquote><br>
For the professional multichannel cards, I suspect we will be happier
with ALSA.<br><br>
--bob</html>