I'm using PortAudio to output sound in a platform-independent way. I'm going to be playing several .WAV files (raw audio data with a nice header, yay) simultaneously. To do this, i need to write a mixer. How is mixing usually done? -- do i just add the stuff together?
Read the FAQ maybe?
PortAudio - an Open-Source Cross-Platform Audio API
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