cannedtunasystemctl status --user pipewire
I’m still waiting for the latency to be viable for playing guitar with an audio interface.
I’m using pipewire just fine to do so? I just needed to set the buffer size to something appropriately low and I’ve had no issues from popewire’s side
RVGamer06New tip just dropped
Maybe it’s time to give it a shot again. Does pipewire have similar functionality to voicemeeter the virtual audio cables?
There’s helvum and carla control that allow you to edit the entire audio graph with all ins and outs for all hardware and software so you can route it however you like. No need for VAC and such. But even if you do, you can load pulseaudio modules i.e.
pactl load-module module-null-sink and then route them with qjackctl which is absolutely crazy and awesome how pipewire lets you do that.
Give Ubuntu Studio a try maybe? It comes with a lot of audio production stuff preinstalled and preconfigured, one of the most important ones in this context being low-latency process scheduling.
Essentially most distros just have default process scheduling options, which means a process might be starved for CPU time, theoretically for up to 2s or so at a time, which is very bad if that process is generating or consuming an audio stream. Low-latency scheduling, while not entirely preventing it from happening, should significantly reduce this.
You could also just configure most other distros Kernels to do low-latency scheduling of course. Or if you don’t want to muck about with kernel settings try Ubuntu Studio, which has that and more all ready to use.