Software audio mixing

Question

I'm looking into learning how software mixing works in general (methods, best practices, pitfalls, etc...) so if anyone has any good c++ literature on the subject that explains how it works, it would be much appreciated.

I've already seen the small explanation at: cplusplus but I was looking for something more in depth. In that line, can anyone provide a good explanation on software mixing?

Answer 1

If you have 2 waveforms represented with their data in some form of an array, say of short values, you just have to ADD those values and resulting array is 'mixed' audio.

Here it is: Programmatically merging two pieces of audio