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PortAudioSharp

version: 0.19.1.41872 (released on 16/04/2006)
author: Riccardo Gerosa (aka h3)
license: (open source)

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About

This library provides .NET bindings for the portable low-latency audio library PortAudio v.19.
The bindings are available directly through the PortAudio class, or you can even use and a simplified higher-lever Audio class.
This library is being developed using C# under Linux/mono and then tested also on other platforms (Windows/.NET only since now) for maximum portability.
There is no "unsafe" code in this library.

Compiling

At the moment there is only a MonoDevelop 0.10 solution (PortAudioSharp.mds), if you don't use MonoDevelop you have to create your own project-files or make-scripts.
The solution contains two projects: The PortAudioSharp library project and a simple test project PortAudioSharpTest.

Installing / Using

1. To use the PortAudioSharp bindings you must have the PortAudio v.19 library installed on your system, you can find PortAudio source code at http://www.portaudio.com
   If you are using a Linux/Unix system you will have to compile and install the libportaudio.so library, if you use Windows you will need to build a PortAudio.dll library.
2. If you are using a source distribution of PortAudioSharp you need to compile it.
3. Copy PortAudioSharp.dll and PortAudioSharp.dll.config files to the directory of your assembly.
4. Add a reference in your project to PortAudioSharp.dll

Known bugs

This is a very early release and it's still full of bugs, it has been tested only under Linux/mono-1.14 and under Windows XP/.NET-2.0
This version seems to work only for some ApiHosts: OSS under Linux and DirectX under Windows.
It is also quite slow and unstable.
Please help me testing, debugging and improving these bindings!