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From: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
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> Does this mean that the vmix application will go away in near future?
> 
> Pete
> 

I doubt it.  It could go away with something like a gus pnp card
since that card will actually run at 8khz.  For other cards like
sb, pas, gus, gus-max, vmix is still need to do rate adjustment.

Actually, if I had the time I would reencarnate the vat_audio device
driver -- probably call it bsd_audio and have that do the BSD audio
interface to Voxware interface conversion.  It could also do rate
adjustment by pre-calibrating via a user level program.

Then one could change the current vmix to just play with VOXware or
BSD style mixing devices...  We really need a sound device that will
work at specified frequencies and a standard interface.

	-Jim