Pete Black wrote: > > Hi there, > > After some discussion on the ALSA-devel list, it appears that you may be > the only one who knows anything about the mythical 'smix' plugin that > might allow myself and others to get more functionality out of > soundcards that do not support multi-open capability in hardware. > > I was wondering if you could let me know what the status of this plugin > is, and if it might be possible to get it put into the official ALSA > tree so that some progress might be made on it, or that at least some > documentation more than 'unknown reference' might be added to the ALSA > docs, which would at least reduce the confusion over the availability of > this capability. > > I understand you are busy, so please consider this as a polite request > for you toadd the smix plugin to ALSA, as it would make my life much > easier when trying to run multiple software synths on linux via my > cm8738 card, and also provide a 'definite' piece of code to work on for > others who may be interested in this capability. > > As it stands, every time anyone asks about 'software multi-open' they > are directed either to the 'share' plugin which clearly does not work in > this capacity, or told that you have once got the smix plugin to work, > and that it is all anyone knows. > > This has the effect of discouraging an alternate implementation, and it > would seem silly to rewrite something that has already been written.
I doubt that some code edited last time more than 18 months ago and that has never been completed or executed (the skeleton was from pcm_share) may be of some usefulness for someone, but I've no problem to release it. I still hope that you or someone else will be able to complete this very useful component. -- Abramo Bagnara mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Opera Unica Phone: +39.546.656023 Via Emilia Interna, 140 48014 Castel Bolognese (RA) - Italy
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