Hello, thanks for your response. stan wrote: > I think you are asking if the quality of the sound will be the same if > routed to the back channels of the card. Yes, I should formulate my questions better next time. > I just looked at > the .asoundrc at the link and it looks to me like the output will be > the same as long as you use this version that takes front > channels and routes them to the back channels at full volume. > # upmixing: > pcm.ch51dup { > type route > slave.pcm dmix6 > slave.channels 6 > ttable.0.0 1 > ttable.1.1 1 > ttable.0.2 1 <--- routing to rear > ttable.1.3 1 <--- at full volume > ttable.0.4 0.5 > ttable.1.4 0.5 > ttable.0.5 0.5 > ttable.1.5 0.5 > } > > It does some unnecessary mixing for your case, but you won't hear the > difference, it will only make the cpu work a little harder. > > There is one caveat: That the plugins don't alter the quality of the > sound as it passes through them. I'm not fully understand this sentence. Why this is a caveat ? > If you feel like experimenting you could change the ch51dup > to ch20dup as follows: > # upmixing: > pcm.ch20dup { > type route > slave.pcm dmix6 > slave.channels 6 > ttable.0.2 1 > ttable.1.3 1 > } > > Beyond that you could change the dmix6 to use only 4 channels, 0, 1, 2, > 3. I'll try this. Can I also just skip dmix6 and route the sound directly to hardware ? -- Best Regards, Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user