What I always miss on #Windows 10/11 is the #Alsamixer of #Linux. I have audio interfaces that are class-compliant, and I can adjust their internal hardware controls with Alsamixer.

So I recently obtained this #Shure #X2u audio interface used and for cheap. Compared to its successor, the #MVX2U, this is a bulky unit, and only operating at 16bits. But the MVX2U has only software controls, while the X2u has actually little wheels for the settings and a button for phantom power.

So: I bought a specific piece of old suboptimal gear that compensates for a missing feature in Windows. Sometehing like 10 years ago, this would be the situation with Linux, now it's the opposite.

Of course, you guys out there could now tell me that Windows still has a GUI for the hardware #mixer of a generic USB #AudioInterface. I would be pleased to learn this.

All of this needs to run without installing specific drivers, because my clients can't do so on their business laptops.

#LinuxAudio

Auburn Sounds have released a new #linuxaudio #plugin:
Selene – a versatile algorithmic #reverb with a pristine adaptive sound.

https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Selene.html

Just fixed the user registration of the Linux Audio Wiki. This was broken for quite a while, sorry about that! But new users can now register again.

https://wiki.linuxaudio.org

#LinuxAudio #SysAdmin

Linux studio migration update... The Focusrite Scarlett 16i16 is here. It's up and working on my second (office) rig. Pipewire working great. The ALSA controls for the Scarlett mixer are working. REAPER is working with 64 samples (~2ms latency).

Next up is further testing the internal cue mixing in the Scarlett and experimenting with using the SPDIF outputs for my main monitor outputs.

Looking very promising so far!

#linuxaudio #studio #audio #foss #linux #musician #musicproducer

Dear #macos and #windows #musician (s) and #musicproducer (s),

what #plugin #vendor (s) would you need natively on #linux in order to be able to consider moving your music production to #linuxaudio?

I have already asked the following vendors for support:
https://linuxaudio.dev/linux-support-request-tracking

I am interested to hear if, from your perspective, there are vendors missing on the list.

Thank you in advance for your help! 🙌

I have just made my list of #plugin vendors that I asked for #linux support public:
https://linuxaudio.dev/linux-support-request-tracking

Do you think the name “Linux Support Request Tracking” makes sense, or do you have a better suggestion?

Also, please let me know if you spot any vendors missing from this list.

Thank you for your help! 🙌

#linuxaudio

What topic would you like to see me cover in my next #peertube #youtube #video on #linuxaudio?

I have more ideas, but these are three of my personal favorites for the next episode of my Linux Audio Soliloquy series (PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/p/3Lg6ohkRAjU3RvXXH3GKWL / YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYZHVKyIslw&list=PLfbsxV-mtFVAEzggVO_bdEOiRY1ixe8lJ). 🤓

My laptop from work runs #Ubuntu 24.04 with #PipeWire. Hooked up my RME Digiface USB to check out if that works with PipeWire but even the Pro profile stays quiet. So I cobbled together a #WirePlumber configuration that maps channel 33 and 34 (the phones output) to Front Left and Front Right. This works but I quickly get weird phasing and ringing audio. I suspect this is related to the bus topology of the Dell Pro 14 Premium, everything sits on one single bus.

#LinuxAudio #RME #RMEAudio

So, #AppImage is independent from your #Linux distro, it always works.

Except for… audio.

Because AppImage programs are statically linked, so they contain all libraries they need. And if they contain an old audio library using ALSA directly, they do not work with #Pipewire apparently.

Because the trick of Pipewire is to replace both #Jack and #ALSA libraries by compatible versions that then access Pipewire, not Jack or ALSA. But if the libraries are inside the program, this does not happen.

Pipewire now is the standard audio system on many distros.

Sad situation that is apparently the cause for me not being able to use #OpenSoundMeter.

Tickets have been filed on GitHub.

I could now try to compile Open Sound Meter myself. I thought I was over this. 🤪

#LinuxAudio

Before the weekend I stumbled upon a toot from @illegalhex: https://hachyderm.io/@illegalhex/115425002242151795

Read it, read it again and read it another time. Then I looked up Green Eggs and Ham from Dr. Seuss (TIL!) which made me appreciate this poem even more.

Grabbed my guitar and almost instantly inspiration popped up. So I spend this weekend recording and mixing the rendition of this poem to a short song.

Recorded and mixed with #Ardour. All #FOSS plugins. And thanks illegalhex for the inspiration!!!

#linuxaudio