Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation for a well-supported multichannel audio card

2014-10-29 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Schmidt, Christian Thorge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> There is no other chip with this silly design. > > Just out of curiosity: Why is this silly? A single device that can stream multichannel data is much easier to design, implement, and test than a bunch of

Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation for a well-supported multichannel audio card

2014-10-29 Thread Schmidt, Christian Thorge
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > There is no other chip with this silly design. Just out of curiosity: Why is this silly? > If you want to play multiple streams through one multichannel card, > you have to merge them in software (i.e., use virtual devices based > on dmix

Re: [Alsa-user] Recommendation for a well-supported multichannel audio card

2014-10-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Schmidt, Christian Thorge wrote: > I currently employ SoundBlaster cards, aka CA0106 for audio-out setups > of 2 to 9 channels (in groups of three, 3,6,9) as the CA0106 supports > multiple ALSA output devices on one card quite well (aka. multiple > mixers). > > It appears as though the CA0106 is ha

[Alsa-user] Recommendation for a well-supported multichannel audio card

2014-10-28 Thread Schmidt, Christian Thorge
Hello all, I currently employ SoundBlaster cards, aka CA0106 for audio-out setups of 2 to 9 channels (in groups of three, 3,6,9) as the CA0106 supports multiple ALSA output devices on one card quite well (aka. multiple mixers). It appears as though the CA0106 is harder and harder to get - which s