Download ALSA 1.0.9 final

The developers behind the ALSA project have now released the final version 1.0.9 of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture after four release candidates. ALSA aims to provide audio and midi functionality for the Linux operating system. on this page a list of supported sound cards can be consulted. The changelog of this release is too long to list here, so we will suffice with a link to the page where to find them. Finally, a summary of the most important features of ALSA:

ALSA has the following significant features:

• Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer soundcards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.
• Fully modularized sound drivers.
• SMP and thread safe design.
• User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.
• Support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.

[break]The following downloads are available:
driver
library
Lib Plugins
Utilities
Tools
Firmware
OSS Compatible Library