Technologies
| Name | Creator | Linux? | Mac OS X? | Unix? | Windows? | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) | Yes | a sound card management system in the Linux kernel | ||||
| DSSI | Yes | a plugin architecture for software synthesizers | ||||
| GStreamer | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | a graph-based multimedia framework | |
| JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) | JACK Team, Paul Davis | Yes | Yes (JACK OS X) | Yes (jackdmp) | a sound server | |
| Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) | Yes | a plugin architecture for digital signal processing | ||||
| Open Sound System | Yes | Yes | a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems | |||
| PulseAudio | Yes | Yes | Yes(Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD) | Yes | a sound server |
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