Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > okay, so /dev/sequencer is not an hardware mixing device, because sb16 is
> > not capable of hardware mixing.
>
> SB16, and probably ALL sound cards, contain an on-card on-chip
> hardware analog mixer.
you probably mean the fact to hardware mix the sound from Mic, CD,
Synth,..
hardware mixing is when you have several "lines" of "synth" sound which is
hardware mixed.
AWE32 and GUS have 32 channels of hardware mixing, for example. it means
that you load some instruments in onboard RAM ["samples"], and the card is
capable of reading its onboard memory to generate sound for each one of
several channels, simultaneously, and hardware mix them before outputting
them to 2 channels [stereo sound!]. for example for the GUS, the GF1 is
responsible for this hardware mix.
SB16 have only 2 channels, each one for each side of stereo sound. the
poor Yamaha will never hardware mix anything.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau
