On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Zixns <alexduthil(a)gmail.com> wrote:
 so if understand, a single audio stream is coming from the software mixer,
 which mixes multiple stream from different sources, and transfered using
 the
 PCM interface to th kernel and then to the hardware ? the software mixing
 in
 alsa is done by dmix i guess ?
 
ALSA can do that, but its not widely used.
most linux music-creation and pro-audio applications use JACK rather than
ALSA.