Re: choice of a new soundcard

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http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/audio/controllers/envy24/Claims that it has "20-channel, 26-bit wide built in mixer". What doesthat mean?
2008/10/27 Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:> Vedran Miletić wrote:>> Drivers that support hardware mixing:>> * snd_emu10k1 - ...>> * snd_cs46xx - ...>> * snd_au88x0 - ...>> * snd_ymfpci - for YMF7xx chips.  Like most of the others, has been>  discontinued and must be bought used.  Used on several cards, e.g.,>  Hoontech SoundTrack Digital XG (most of those cards have "XG" in>  their name).>> If you want a supported wavetable synthesizer, get a SB Live! or Audigy.> If you want to do bit-exact recording from the SPDIF input, get a> YMF754B-based card.  Otherwise, the chip doesn't matter.>>> Not sure about:>> * snd_ice1712>> Does _not_ support hardware mixing.>>> Hardware does support it, and it did work on Windows.>> The Windows driver, like the drivers of most other cards, claims to> support multiple streams and does software mixing in the driver itself> instead of letting Windows do the mixing.  Since Windows assumes that no> driver would do such a silly thing, the driver shows up as "supports> hardware mixing".>>> HTH> Clemens>


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