Re: [LAD] A History of Audio on Linux somewhere?

... only a secondary linux anecdote: MAAS Maybe too young and too encourages we wanted a transition from expensive SGIs and NeXT to affordable Linux systems for our multichannel sound installation art projects. They first had nice audio libraries, the concept for float multichannel libraries with audio daemons was all there and also inspired by the DSP System "Romeo und Julia" veröffentlich in C´t 5-7/96), I started "Modular Accelerated Audio System" - MAAS and therefore kernel driver development for multichannel audio devices. - https://users.iem.at/~ritsch/hardware/maas/ (just found the Homepage, never updated...) We failed somehow, since the Motorolla DSP PCI bus was to tricky..., anyhow for MAAS we also started multichannel audio kernel drivers, where OSS did not work, since only stereo and not open source... ... later on for a first Ambisonics system for an art installation to finish in 1999 in Vienna, I got an RME9632 and there was no kernel, also no ALSA, so I started an own one, which was adapted later by Paul, thanks again for doing that, for ALSA. The discurs was: proposal of a /dev/dspN for each channel and not one device for many channels and also drafted "esd", (enanced sound daemon) on IEM with Guenther Geiger ... but since a lack of "communication abilities on mailing lists" never got a rough consensus within the linux community for this ... anyhow some code survived and RME cards still works until today... mfg winfried Am Dienstag, 25. Jänner 2022, 09:09:53 CET schrieb Philip Rhoades: -- - ao.Univ.Prof. DI Winfried Ritsch - ritsch(a)iem.at - http://iem.at/ritsch - Institut fuer Elektronische Musik und Akustik - University of Music and Dramatic Art Graz - Tel. ++43-316-389-3510 (3170) Fax ++43-316-389-3171