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From: Frank van de Pol <frank@vande-pol.demon.nl>
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Subject: Re: RTLinux/ALSA mix
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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:19:38 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <029201be40a2$fb7ceae0$47010180@pcbg> from "Benjamin GOLINVAUX" at Jan 15, 99 05:20:35 pm
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Benjamin GOLINVAUX wrote:
> 
> Hi All...
> 
> Since I noticed there is quite a lot of interest in Linux as a real-time
> audio platform, I wonder if someone is actually interested to work with me
> to provide rock-steady and low latency audio I/O with ALSA drivers.
> 

For your research it might be interesting to look at the MS Windows
platform. Many harddisk recording packages exists, but most are having
problems with the latency of the windows sound drivers. 

To overcome these problems a company named Steinberg (www.steinberg.de),
also known from their Cubase (VST) application came up with a new driver
called ASIO. This driver has support for low latency, and many channels;
almost all pro audio cards support this windows driver. ASIO might also be
available for AppleMac, but I'm not sure on that.

Hope this helps,
Frank

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