Re: Kernel OSS vs ALSA

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:48:44 +0100 (BST)


> > the DSP chip in these modern cards.
>
> DSP on a mainstream soundcard?? Not that I know of 8-)

The SB Live appears to be exactly that.

> The best I've seen so far are half assed scatter/gather DMA engines,
> glorified programmable digital mixers and sample rate converters...

The ESS Maestro has some DSP like stuff, the old Echo cards have DSP on them
(enough that someone has an MP3 player for the sound card dsp). But most of
them are running fixed dsp programs for echo, mixing, rate adaption,
reverb etc

Alan

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