Lucie / minute1d ago
do you make music on Linux, and what's your favorite software to work with? and what do you miss the most from Linux music/audio software that exists on other platforms?
Show threadcéline didone1d ago
@[email protected] Bookmarking this because I’m very interested in the responses!

I’ve tried and failed so far, but i want to keep trying. (So far tried reaper and ardour). What I’m missing:

⁃ Audio device predictability: something about my setup means opening these daws will sometimes kill my wireplumber session in a way I don’t know how to recover without a reboot, and not repeatable enough that I know “what not to do”

The rest is around specific plugins, which I hope the responses provide some good recommendations.
Show threadಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)
@ruben @mntmn Use ALSA unless you need muxing at the stream level, honestly.
Apr 5 at 1:01amWeb
Show threadcéline didone23h ago
@[email protected] @[email protected] I haven’t been able to get any sound out of ALSA in my current setup
Show threadಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)21h ago
@[email protected] @ruben Oh weird. Are you using an external mixer/sound card?
Show threadcéline didone20h ago
@[email protected] Sometimes. But I’ll figure it out at some point. Rather than going down the debugging route, the reason I mentioned it is that when I’m in a “make music” mood i’m not in a “debug Linux audio” mood, and it just makes me not go to my Linux machine for making music.

I can only imagine this is worse for non technical users.