ARDOUR AUDIO SETUP DRIVERS
ARDOUR AUDIO SETUP DRIVER

So people on FreeBSD can still use Linux binaries for Flash/Real/Skype and use either native OSS/Free drivers or use our commercial ones and get audio without any loss in functionality. The advantage of OSS is write one compile anywhere – and in case of FreeBSD/UnixWare/LynxOS and Solaris (Janus or Lxrun) you’ll be able to run Linux binaries and they just work with OSS drivers on the native platforms. OSS isn’t dead yet (gosh I sound like Monty Python’s Holy Grail….I’m not dead yet….I’m feeling better, I think I’ll go for a walk….) All the major games – Unreal/Doom/Quake still use OSS. People are still widely deploying OSS API drivers and apps – just look at the embedded space and if OSS as an API was dead, how come Skype comes out with a brand new app that’s OSS API based. If you’ve been wasting hours trying to configure ALSA, spend 10 minutes downloading and installing OSS and get productive instantly. It’s 20 dollars if you need support and we’re so sure you’ll never need it. Now there’s no reason not to run OSS – because its free (as in free beer)įor noncommercial/home use. It’s more user friendly and easier than ever to isntall it. OSS has more advanced features than ALSA – why not download the latest OSS drivers and see for yourself. Have problems writing apps to their own API. So tells you that even the ALSA developers This support for XMMS was not written by us but by one of the ALSA people. Its funny that XMMS (another of 4Front’s products that is GPL’ed and relies on sales of commercial OSS drivers for paying developers salaries) works better with OSS API emulation on ALSA drivers than the native ALSA api support. Little does anybody know that without OSS API emulation, ALSA would ever have been allowed into the kernel by Linus. People learn one new term “deprecated” and that’s all everybody keep writing in every single article. The author has show some examples of ALSA programming….exactly how is this advanced compared to OSS? OSS v4.0 is due out sometime this year and we will be adding new features while maintaining 100% backward compatibility for apps written as early as 1994.Īny app you want to run on ALSA will also run on OSS (via Jack for OSS).

ARDOUR AUDIO SETUP DRIVER

OSS drivers (gpl’ed and commercial) are all full duplex and the ALSA guys keep raging on FULL duplex features of ALSA – only one OSS driver was intially not full duplex (SB16) that was eventually made full duplex. Everything one can do with ALSA can also be done on OSS drivers. OSS the API is stable and is very advanced even when it was originally written in 1993. Being one of the principals behind Open Sound System, I can tell you that this article has been written without doing any research.

Ardour audio setup