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Quick edit: I'm actually using a quantum of 64, but latency is negligible nonetheless. I did bump it up to 128 because the system seemed a little sluggish, but that turned out not to be the problem. (Issue was actually due to trying to drive a large external display in portrait mode with motherboard...

Are you using special or custom configs for PipeWire? If so, care to share? I'm not actually doing anything special at all. I've tested two different machines, an older Thinkpad i5 with integrated graphics and 16 GB, and a much more powerful machine, a brand-new System76 Serval with a current i9, 3...

I do believe that with the current version of Pipewire and a current kernel, it is indeed possible to get excellent performance with Pipewire. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I'm getting performance at least as good as what I was able to do under JACK (<5 ms/32 samples) and I'm not even running a low...

I used to swear by Ubuntu Studio. But these days, I'm using Pop!OS and I'm more than satisfied. It's not an audio-optimized distro, nor is it is as minimalistic as an XCFE-based distro, but everything works more-or-less out of the box. It's very stable and would be great for a Linux newb, although I...

I really don’t understand all the talk about things like shutting down Pulse, avoiding dbus etc. On a properly configured system, none of that should be necessary. I can honestly say that I never experienced any of these Pulse/Jack conflicts people keep talking about. When I used Ubuntu Studio, Puls...

I tried Pipewire only reluctantly, but so far, it’s working for me. I think the most recent versions (> 0.3.7.1) have done a lot to address the concerns people were having with it. I’m seeing latency numbers equivalent to what I was seeing with JACK and zero problems with switching between pro audio...

Okay, brought quantum down to 64. Set the audio device to "pro audio" in pavucontrol. Plugged in a mic and monitored through software. At this point, I can't even hear the comb filtering. Hardly the most extensive test, but I'm pretty happy with the results so far. Things I did not need to...

Further update: I just acquired a System76 Serval laptop, which came with Pop!_OS preinstalled. Out of the box, System76's kernel includes the pre-empt patches and a custom scheduler that assigns priority to a/v applications. I did nothing more than edit the Pipewire quantum down to 128, an I'm seei...

Follow-Up: Tested midi. Connected a midi controller and loaded a software synth in Ardour. The synth was quite playable and did not (subjectively) feel laggy. Again, this was just one channel, and I know that more detailed testing will be necessary, but I wanted to share results as I obtain them. Th...

I'm currently testing the most recent version of Pop! OS with Pipewire, and the results are very promising. I had been running Ubuntu Studio and was largely satisfied with the performance, but was interested in Pop! OS as a general-purpose OS and decided to try it out for audio usage. I was initiall...

Yes, I like and use Reaper as well, and I agree that it's a marvelous piece of software engineering. I tend to approach DAWs the way I approach instruments: they have different strengths and weakness, and different use cases. In the case of Ableton Live, I used it on Mac and Windows for its excellen...

There are definitely people claiming to have achieved decent latency with Ableton Live under Wine. It's clearly difficult, but I'm not sure it's completely due to Wine. After all, I'm achieving latencies comparable to what I'm see on Windows with Wine under Max/MSP. And some people were reporting na...

I wanted to try running Ableton Live under Wine, since apparently some people have had good luck with it and I already own a Live license. (Of course I am aware that there are native Linux alternatives, but as I mentioned, I already own a license for Live.) Anyway, I did manage to get it to install,...

Update number 2: I noticed that if I scan the plugins in Reaper, PhoenixVerb.so is located, but iLok License Manager then throws an error that the license server is unavailable. That's the same error that I was getting before I tried installing the License Manager in its own prefix. I should note th...