Routing our 18-channel soundcard through Ardour BEFORE it hits OBS. You get: EQ per channel, compression, effects, reverb, and a real-time mix. All free with Ardour.

#LinuxAudio #OpenSource

We've just tagged the second release candidate of Ardour 9.0 and announced strings freeze, so that translators can start their work safely.

Please use https://nightly.ardour.org/ to download and test. Since Ardour 9.0 is not yet ready for production use, please do not package it for Linux distributions.

We expect to tag at least one more release candidate.

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/development-update-9-0-rc2-tagged-string-freeze/112696/1

"Loopino—A creative Sampler" is new to me. Are some of you #linuxaudio enthusiasts already familiar with it?

It looks interesting, is #opensource, and available as #clap and #vst.

https://github.com/brummer10/Loopino

I am happy to announce another (IMHO outstanding) #linuxaudio #developer #interview with one of the creators behind Plogue!

I spoke with David Viens about their art of giving old hardware chips a new life as #plugin (s), and of course about #linux. 🤓

https://linuxaudio.dev/linux-audio-developers-spotlight/plogue

Happy holidays to you all! 😊

This week, the band has been live-streaming every week-ish for the past year, and I've been working on sharing what we learned.

Next week: Getting into the technical HOW. If you want the full setup guide I put together, link is in my profile. ✌️

#OpenSource #LiveStreaming #LinuxAudio #Ardour #OBS

Mixxx Stable 2.5.4 Released!

We're proud to share our early Christmas present with you: Mixxx version 2.5.4, a new stable release. This version bundles various minor corrections, improvements and fixes for the issues you reported. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

Check out the full announcement:
https://mixxx.org/news/2025-12-14-mixxx-2_5_4-released/

Today, for the first time since I switched to Linux over 5 years ago, my #archlinux Z16 #thinkpad kept freezing after #gdm authentication. 😲

Apparently, because the status of `/run/user/1000` became corrupt. 🤔

1. TTY login
2. `loginctl terminate-user $USER` (cleanup sessions)
3. `systemctl restart systemd-logind` (recreating the directory)
4. `systemctl reboot`
5. Everything was back to normal

Took me an hour to figure out, though. 🫣

RealtimeKit has a new home next to @pipewire, and I just rolled out a new release ... give it a spin!

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/rtkit

#linux #linuxaudio #pipewire #pulseaudio