On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:28 AM Sid <[email protected]> wrote: > OSS version 4 from http://developer.opensound.com/ is supposed to allow multiple sound applications to play simultaneously, and it has improvements over previous and forked versions. For the most part, it has a BSD license.
NetBSD has an in-kernel audio mixer that allows multiple audio sources to play at the same time. I think it might only be in 8-BETA or -current though.0 > There is also sndio, http://www.sndio.org/, from OpenBSD, which can handle MIDI frontends to a sound server (or directly to the hardware). Are people still using MIDI? > It would be nice to see the newest version of OSS put into NetBSD, with layers of sndio to bridge MIDI and API's to OSSv4. See above. > Also, across all BSD's, there is not a simple drop-in BSD replacement of libcanberra, to act as an API from certain applications to OSS or sndio. But there is libcanberra itself? Also libao has a native "sunaudio" driver IIRC. -- Benny
