[linux-audio-user] ALSA device sharing?

[Patrick Shirkey]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 15:17, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> 
>>Hello!
>>
>>Does alsa allow several programs to use one device, with soft mixing?
>>
> 
> 
> Not really. But Jack, which runs on top of Alsa, does. fluidsynth
> supports JAck, as well as ither soft synths like amSynth and
> ZynAddSubFx.
> 

Actually it does but the apps should have native alsa support and it 
needs to be fairly recent.

You can use the dmix plugin

I have used it with xmms.

There is documentation available on the .asoundrc page via the soundcard 
matrix at alsa-project.org.

The jack plugin for xmms has been broken by recent jack cvs changes but 
the author is planning to get it working again when he has time.

Also I second Ico's suggestion to use libjackasyn.


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