Well, with my ASIO devices if a program is using that audio card via ASIO, other programs can't access it. It may well vary from driver to driver then.
Victor On 17 Dec 2009, at 12:52, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > >> It's also true to say that elsewhere, on Windows, if you want to >> have low-latency, you also loose the software mixer. AFAIK ASIO >> drivers and KS implementations are single-client like alsa. >> > > As far as my current experience with XP SP3 goes, this is not correct. > > Mixing works just fine, even when using ASIO. Maybe you have to start > the asio program first though, I don't know. But still, there's no > reason why you shouldn't have a global option, lets say 256 frames > 48000Hz, that everything mixes down to, and then software which needs > hardcore low-level performance must obey to that setting. > > > >> To me, it makes perfect sense to have alsa as a HAL, and get people >> using pulseaudio or jack at application level. >> > > Something which is unnecessarily complicated can not make perfect > sense. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
