Right now, wine works best using the "default" soundcard and without pulseaudio. Those of us who need to change the "default" to other than the factory-installed change the card use asoundconf, a script that was developed a while ago and included in the package alsa-utils by Ubuntu (and some other distros). Ubuntu abandoned asoundconf in favor of a gui tool that works only with gnome / pulseaudio. Asoundconf is a short script, but it needs a maintainer and a champion, and Ubuntu has refused to sponsor it. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376024
