The only problem I've had recently is that I can't seem to split up different ports on the same card (optical home theatre/soundbar for music, desktop stereo fo

The only problem I've had recently is that I can't seem to split up different ports on the same card (optical home theatre/soundbar for music, desktop stereo for everything else), but that's not something I was able to do with ALSA anyway. Something to do with opening the card in different profiles I think.