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From: Ian Main <imain@gimp.org>
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Subject: alsa of course.
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Hello :)


I've been anctiously lurking on your list waiting for a few emails so I
figured I'd take a plunge and send one :)

I've been busy working on an audio mixer/sound editor for linux called
Audiotechque (or atech for short) for the past few weeks, and have been
having a heck of a time trying to get full duplex working.. so, I happened
across this.

alsa looks like it could really rock :-)  From reading the source code, I
managed to figure out most of the new API, and it looks quite good.  I even
wrote a rather crappy native driver for atech.  However, I haven't expanded
on it much since I wrote it a few days ago - busy fixing other bugs.  The
OSS emulation seems, for my purposes at least, to work better than the
native alsa for this app.

I got full duplex (mostly) working via the OSS api on both my SB16, and my
GUS MAX.  I've got a few bug reports for you if you're interested.  I'd also
appreciate it if you could take a look at atech and see if I'm using the alsa
drivers correctly.  I know I could do a much better job on the OSS one too,
but it works so I haven't bothered yet :-)

You can get the latest from:

ftp.gimp.org /pub/users/imain/

It also requires GTK 0.99.6 or later.. you can also get that from ftp.gimp.org

It uses seperate processes for play and record servers, so it's easy to plug
in new drivers...

Anyway, I wish you the best of luck with alsa. :-)


Ian


