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From: Fred Floberg <emng@geocities.com>
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On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 cdavid@umich.edu wrote:

> 
> ALSA was mentioned in the February issue of Linux Journal, in an article
> about CSound :)
> 
> Here is the excerpt from the Article (Linux Journal, February 1999 issue
> 58, p.41 "Csound for Linux" by David Phillips)
> 
> ...
> While certainly sufficient for casual use, many sonic notions such as
> full-duplex and muliplexed real-time audio I/O are not realizable by the
> OSS/Free driver.  However, the ALSA driver does indeed support those uses;
> thanks to code from Fred Floberg,

*beam* I never thought I'd ever see my own name in print :-)
Thanks, Jaroslav, and everyone, for a great driver!

> Linux CSound now explicitly supports
> the ALSA interface.

Ahhh, wouldn't quad, hex, and octal audio i/o be grand?
I'm afraid that can't happen with multiple sound cards, unless one
is brave enough to try to tweek the on-board clocks!

I've just been looking at the new sequencer API in 0.3.0-pre2 and hope
to get Csound to work with ALSA sequencer drivers one day.

ObDevel: I've been able to get the 'seq' test program to work with all
functions except input (decoder). It hangs on the select call forever,
waiting for input (which I'm feeding to it).

Is this a known problem?



Fred



