sndiod is pretty nice... Dead simple. Fixed latency that you set when you run the sound daemon. Same API with the sound daemon in or out. You can yank it out a

sndiod is pretty nice... Dead simple. Fixed latency that you set when you run the sound daemon. Same API with the sound daemon in or out. You can yank it out and the programs get to use the same interface for both audio and mixer. So nothing like the pointless ALSA mixing interface laying around when you run pulseaudio. It all works transparently.