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<p>88.103.20.84: audio and midi, not only midi</p> <hr /> <div>=Introduction=<br /> '''ALSA''' or '''Advanced Linux Sound Architecture''' is a project, which seeks to provide audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features. <br /> ==Features== <br /> * Effcient support for all soundcards from consumer to professional multichannel audio devices <br /> * Fully modularized sound drivers <br /> * SMP and thread-safe design <br /> * ''alsa-lib'' in order to simplify the high level API <br /> * Support for the older OSS API. <br /> ==ALSA over OSS==<br /> There are many advantages ALSA has over the older (but perhaps not the newer) OSS API: <br /> <br /> * multi-thread safe design <br /> * transparent use of plugin architecture to handle format,rate,channel cnt and many other conversions <br /> * support for non-interleaved interfaces <br /> * user-space software mixing ''(dmix)'' <br /> * user-space &quot;loopback/snoop&quot; capabilities <br /> * merging multiple cards into a single virtual device <br /> * hiding non-ALSA-drivers behind a consistent user-space API (e.g. IEEE1394 drivers, or JACK) <br /> * consistent and generic control API for managing hardware controls <br /> * Flexible mixer architecture to handle modern audio interfaces fully (rather than reducing them to a simplistic device) <br /> * consistent support for multiple instances of the same card <br /> * linked operations of multiple cards <br /> <br /> =Development API= <br /> ==Tutorials== <br /> ==ALSA Library API== <br /> ==ALSA Documentation==<br /> ==External links== <br /> * [http://alsa.opensrc.org/ ALSA wiki] a large wiki pertaining to major ALSA related topics. <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Software]]</div>

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