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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:20:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Joakim Henriksson <murduth@ludd.luth.se>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AOpen AW35 (CS4237)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.95.971021101405.21534B-100000@sister.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <199710210656.HAA20492@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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> > 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




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