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On my older machines I can switch between Pulseaudio or Jack, and then pipe the Pulseaudio sound through Jack (if required). On my new machine I disabled Pulseaudio and installed Pipewire as a Pulse replacement. Scenario 1 - Pipewire acts as a replacement for Pulseaudio and as a poor man's Jack. In ...

Perhaps there are additional performance gains that can still be tuned on your system? I can run Kontakt in Reaper with Jack at 256 frames with no xruns using a USB soundcard, but that's with one instrument loaded. I haven't tried to load a large group so I cannot comment on how that would work. I'm...

Ahh, that is strange, thanks Jeff. asbak, the fact that he hears this noise using PulseAudio, but not with Jack on the same hardware , seems to indicate it isn't a hardware problem. If he really has isolated the problem to pulseaudio, then it's either a pulseaudio bug or setting that needs to be adj...

There could be all kinds of reasons, often it's to do with the hardware itself or other components in your house which causes problems. For example: Powerline / Ethernet adapters used in a home can be faulty or low quality and that noise comes in via Ethernet. There could be issues with house earthi...

That's interesting. On what base does PW handle this? Does this mean, if i use it for music-production with different applications, i have to take care, which program runs at a certain buffer? There are all sorts of ways to accomplish this, one could use variables to launch applications (as some pe...

Kontakt was the final reason for me to switch to Linux as DAW OS. Kontakt was is and will ever be very buggy. Kontakt is the leading distribution platform for third party sample libraries. Kontakt offers decryption of secured sample libraries. that is the reason why there are many many users who ar...

For what it's worth, here is an upstream repo for Pipewire which may or may not have more recent & useful packages than the standard repos. I didn't use this myself (used different methods) for my build but if I were to start all over again this option may be worth considering. https://launchpad...

My 2c so far on real-world testing: Latencies in pipewire with a selection of tested soundcards are low enough for me to not notice, or so marginal that they are almost imperceptible. However, I'm not a Steely Dan grade session player so mileage for others may vary, perhaps there will be enough of a...

Hi Gmaq, no worries at all =) AVLinux is the gold standard for a production grade audio production system so the reasoning behind why PW isn't suitable for it are totally valid. My system is experimental, it's hardly production grade. Some of the audio packages on it aren't working 100% reliably for...

I found some interesting links about tuning for low latency. I will try this on Friday. The tuning you must make for low latency: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Performance-tuning I just tried this and I'm a bit confused about the RLIMITs section. I've added the suggested ...

Performed another round of configuration optimisations, tested with a guitar. Latency's low enough (on one of the soundcards) for me to not notice it on nearby monitors or headphones. Mileage for others may vary. I ran a youtube video, a very CPU hungry synth plugin and Guitarix at the same time, no...

Hi, I keep coming back to the same question about PipeWire... As someone primarily doing AV Work with a good and proven JACK/Pulse set up and most of the time using Ardour or Mixbus direct to ALSA what real benefit is there to PipeWire? There are already long-running issues with how low latency can...

asbak, this seems sooo cracy complicated. I don't know Mint or Ubuntu for that matter. I just want to say that the switch to pipewire on Debian testing (bookworm) is so much easier than this. It might work smoother for you to just try that? Yes you're right, it is crazy complicated. Too crazy. What...

Did you try any lower period size than 256? Didn't work for me. I don't know much about Pipewire at this stage. In pure Jack / Alsa (Pipewire off) I can get lower. *Couldn't find a way to get it to work w. lower settings in Pipewire. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the tuning I'd be m...