On 04-Mar-2004 Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > > It is wavetable synthesizer API not PCM API. This part of ALSA is still >> > > in the development phase. >> > >> > But when that gets fully developed, would I have to use the rawmidi API >> > to do this then? >> >> I think that sequencer API is more appropriate, but as I said, we don't >> have a clear design at this time. It's also possible that we will hide >> these things in alsa-lib and the kernel API will be hardware specific >> using the hwdep interface. > > i feel hwdep would be more appropriate. > > i guess he wants the sound engine, mixing of several streams and > running efficiently (almost in background) for games, etc. > it's less music-oriented, but would need just a sample load and > loop playback function (with panning, volume effect if possible). > at least, it wouldn't be too difficult to implement it for emu10k1 > (and maybe trident and ymfpci, too, if the sample size is small).
On the Amiga :) it was simple. You only need to tell the hw to play a block of data at given sample rate, volume, etc. But most of the cards can't do that. I think one good solution is to run an "sfx mixer" in a separate thread. That mixer must provide emulation code if the hardware lacks some of the required features, at least the basic ones. Device dependent stuff is not a good idea IMHO. -- Giuliano. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
