From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Oct 21 01:40:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA29910 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 01:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA29900 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 01:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murduth@ludd.luth.se) Received: from sister.ludd.luth.se (murduth@sister.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.77]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA02984; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:20:33 +0100 Received: from localhost (murduth@localhost) by sister.ludd.luth.se (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id KAA22535; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:20:32 +0200 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:20:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joakim Henriksson To: Luigi Rizzo cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AOpen AW35 (CS4237) In-Reply-To: <199710210656.HAA20492@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The PAS is one of the funnier cards since it does do SB emulation, but > > uses an actual Creatice chip to achieve it. This gives the PAS two sound > > channels out (PAS 16bit stereo, sb 8bit mono). I would think that the sb > > part could be accessed by your drivers. But then i lose the PAS part and > > can _still_ only play two sounds at a time :) As to me writing a driver... > > What is the point of using multiple cards to play sounds together, > rather than mixing them in software and playing the resulting stream on > one _good_ sound card ? CPU? I did try software mixing once, but to make a good mixing device? I just dont have the math for it. > But I don't think I will ever support the PAS in such a way that > two independent, simultaneous channels are available. Does Voxware > support this ? I'm not sure i'm following you on this but if you are asking if i can play two sounds simmultaneous, then yes i can. The PAS card is really two cards in one. regards/ Joakim