ALSA

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Introduction

ALSA or Advanced Linux Sound Architectureis a project, which seeks to provide MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features.

Features

  • Effcient support for all soundcards from consumer to professional multichannel audio devices
  • Fully modularized sound drivers
  • SMP and thread-safe design
  • alsa-lib in order to simplify the high level API
  • Support for the older OSS API.

ALSA over OSS

Development API

Tutorials

ALSA Library API

ALSA Documentation