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Linux Audio Nerds, Take Notice — The Fedora Audio Creation SIG is being revived
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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.
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.
Right, I did do that. Even without it the latency is noticeable but not catastrophic IMO.
I didn't know about the existence of guitarix, thanks
Personally, I use Bitwig studio. It's. It not Foss, but it's well build, not as expensive as others, and it fulfils the "no Tux no Bux" requirement.
As far as exotic stuff goes, I only buy stuff that’s class-compliant so I don’t have to worry about the manufacturer sunsetting support in the future. Supporting those sorts of devices should be a priority over anything with weird proprietary issues (fuck you IK Multimedia!).