Audacity Forum

Gale Andrews wrote:If you want to use other audio apps while using Audacity you will have to use the workaround ...<snip>

That is 'usually' the case (virtually "always" for consumer level sound cards), though some high level sound cards are able to handle multiple streams without help from Pulse.

steve wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:If you want to use other audio apps while using Audacity you will have to use the workaround ...<snip>

That is 'usually' the case (virtually "always" for consumer level sound cards), though some high level sound cards are able to handle multiple streams without help from Pulse.

Do you know any named examples, in case someone really wants that? I presume we're talking about hardware mixing?


Gale

The RME Hamerfall soundcards have hardware mixing, though I've never used one under Linux.
If I remember correctly, the old SoundBlaster AWE (10k1 / 10k2), but these are long obsolete - I'll dig my old one out when I get time and see if I can get it going