Jorge, This is probably getting a bit off-topic for this list. My card (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) does a reasonable amount of stuff, including supporting a db50xg midi daughter card from Yamaha that I can't seem to get working yet under Linux. I think some reasonable dialog with the Turtle Beach support group might be the way to go. ALSA does support the db50xg synthesizer, but just not as a daughter card on my current sound card. You can do software mixing with ALSA and interact with the various hardware components via the .asoundrc file. For more info on that (and its seemingly arcane syntax), see the following: 1) go to http://www.alsa-project.org/ 2) select the documentation link 3) select the asoundrc link I'm interested in Jack since it does near real-time audio. One of the issues when mixing multiple sound tracks digitally is the OS latency. The real-time kernel tweaks plus the Jack / ALSA combination seem to provide a professional quality environment. That plus some MIDI sequencing software and I should be set to write music on Linux . . . hopefully killing one of my last three reasons for having a Windows OS available. I'm working with Wine to get another package running (Enterprise Architect - a really good, inexpensive UML tool). Then all I have left is a chat tool with video cam viewing . . . . /mde/ just my two cents . . . .
