Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Mixer Handling in PA 0.9.16/F12

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 15:13 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> Modern sound card designs don't do hw mixing anymore, it's like
> fm synthesis or wavetable audio. It's simply not done in hw
> anymore. The only exceptions are cards for gamers, i.e. Creative
> cards. And uh, quite frankly those cards probably only have it because
> they need at least something that distuingishes them from normal HDA
> cards.

Just out of curiosity - do modern pro cards (M-Audio etc) do hw mixing?

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