(Sorry for reposting to LAD, I've already sent this to alsa-user but I'm unsure which list is more appropriate so I'm trying both) Hello, I have a machine with two DELTA 1010LT cards and they work very well with ALSA (using ALSA binaries from Planet CCRMA). I would like to write a single threaded application that is able to write on all out channels (analog outs 1-8 of card 1 and 2 = 16 channels) simultaneously. The card's manual says that in order to synchronize two cards one should select the first card as master and set the internal clock generation (I do this via envy24control) and then connecting the SPDIF-OUT of card 1 to the SPDIF-IN of card 2 and set the card 2's clock source to SPDIF-IN. So far so good (from the hardware point of view) I managed to write ALSA code that writes to a single card: it opens the PCM hw:0 device selects 10 channel interleaved S32_LE mode and then writes out some data. This works perfectly for a single card. Now my question: I would like to extend this app so that it writes to both cards simultaneously without going out of sync. I assume that the SPDIF writing and clocksouce selection provides this from a hardware point of view, but I am unsure how to proceed from with the application code since the ALSA docs do not mention such a scenario. currently for a single card setup, I do the usual card setup and then sit in a while loop that does while(1) { snd_pcm_writei(pcm_handle, audiobuf, MY_PERIOD_FRAMES); } Is the following way to extend the app to two cards correct ? call the functions to setup card 1 (hw:0) call the functions to setup card 2 (hw:1) while(1) { snd_pcm_writei(pcm_handle1, audiobuf1, MY_PERIOD_FRAMES); snd_pcm_writei(pcm_handle2, audiobuf2, MY_PERIOD_FRAMES); } (where audiobuf1 is the buffer sent to card 1 while audiobuf2 is the buffer sent to card 2) Or is some special "sync start" procedure needed ? I remember ALSA had/has provides some functionality in this regard but I was unable to find documentation about it. Thanks in advance for your help. PS: does the DELTA cards only support the interleaved mode ? The model seems a bit inefficient since in most apps the data sources are non interleaved audio streams. (eg a HDR app that outputs each audio track to a different audio channel) cheers, Benno http://linuxsampler.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.gardena.net