>Does ALSA support a clock-linked pair of M-Audio >Audiophile 24/96 cards, such that: > - master clock can be the card or an S/PDIF in
don't know about that. > - output is to an arbitrary combination of the > 8 channels (4 analogue, 4 S/PDIF) yes. though good luck getting detailed instructions on how to do it. its basically a matter of messing around with your ~/.asoundrc file. one thing to be aware of: nobody has yet measured the delay in starting two physically distinct but "linked" ALSA PCM devices. its likely that the delay is very small, probably on the order of <10usecs. However, since a single sample at 96kHz is only 10usecs, there isn't a lot of room for slop here before the cards are not started in sync with each other. somebody needs to test this soon. --p
