[LAU] linking soundcards

[Dragan Noveski]

Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm building a live performance using chuck. We need to have both click 
> + the actual audio produces, routed to either a headphones mixer or the 
> PA. I could of source live with mono and pan the click to one channel 
> and the music to the other, but stereo is better...
>
> The problem is twofold:
>
> 1) Can I link the onboard soundcard and an usb soundcard so that they 
> appear to the system as one four channel device?
>   

i think that this is only theoretically possible if you create an 
.asoundrc file, but it will not work because the cards are not synced, 
so they will always play asynchronously.

cheers,
doc
> 2) Can I address each of these outputs (or sets of stereo outputs) from 
> chuck?
>
> BTW: I don't need super low latency and I only need playback. The laptop 
> is gonna be an IBM x61 running ubuntu and the usb card is an Edirol UA-1A.
>
> Thanks in advance for any response!
>
>