On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 15:17, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > Hello! > > Does alsa allow several programs to use one device, with soft mixing? > Not really. But Jack, which runs on top of Alsa, does. fluidsynth supports JAck, as well as ither soft synths like amSynth and ZynAddSubFx. Give Jack a try. BTW - You will want to turn off system sounds and things like the arts sound server if you're going to use Alsa/Jack.