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Linux Audio Nerds, Take Notice — The Fedora Audio Creation SIG is being revived (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you use Linux to edit audio, mix songs and work with audio in general, including having trouble making certain audio hardware work, it's your chance to join a community effort to make Linux audio creation better and more accesible.

The Audio Creation SIG (Special Interest Group) is a hub for creators to help each other create and together try and find ways to get better hardware and VST support for Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Personal anecdote: I connected my guitar to my shitty sound card a few weeks ago, ran guitarix (because real DAWs are overwhelmingly complicated and I just want an amp, a compressor, and some reverb), and thanks to PipeWire and pipewire-jack everything ran perfectly. Low latency, no crackling, no messing with jackd or ALSA, no restarting audio daemons, I could simultaneously play audio through Firefox and hear my guitar. I dare say that that part of the audio stack is now a solved problem.

I'm not a musician though so I can't comment on hardware support for exotic sound/midi cards or the maturity of FOSS DAWs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You didn't have to tweak PIPEWIRE_LATENCY or adjust the latency in guitarix? In my setup the latency isn't great out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Right, I did do that. Even without it the latency is noticeable but not catastrophic IMO.

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