How to Make ALSA a Working Audio Device w/ Interface in REAPER

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Re: How to Make ALSA a Working Audio Device w/ Interface in REAPER

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Another option is to go back to running REAPER on Linux on Chromebook (Crostini) as you know it works. Try it and see if you can tune it to reduce latency.

You may have latency issues with Crostini or Crouton since your Chromebook does not meet REAPER's minimum system requirements.
https://www.reaper.fm/about.php
Your Chromebook has an Atom (Intel family of processors); x86_64 = Core, i686 = Itanium
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Re: How to Make ALSA a Working Audio Device w/ Interface in REAPER

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Unanamis wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:27 pm JACK is not currently installed. But at this point, it's looking like I might need to use it.
Are you sure JACK is not installed because you said it was listed in your reaper options?

maybe run

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apt list --installed | grep jack
to make sure.
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Re: How to Make ALSA a Working Audio Device w/ Interface in REAPER

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I found an article on the Crouton wiki that seems to be directly on point:
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wi ... LSA,-JACK)
Try ALSA to hardware first.
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Chromebook as a DAW w/ an Audio Interface

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Success has been had! Yes!

I had to figure out how to make a file with contents,
~~~
> .asoundrc
xdg-open .asoundrc
~~~
and then put the contents found on https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wi ... LSA,-JACK)
~~~
# ~/.asoundrc
# overrides default alsa settings
# To revert back to CRAS, change "type hw" with "type cras". You do not have to change "card".

pcm.!default {
type hw
card UMC1820
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card UMC1820
}
~~~
into the mousepad window, but once I did that, it worked!

REAPER was slower on start up, but I could use ALSA as an audio device and have multiple inputs.

The final process I needed to do was click "view" on my user file manager and then hit "Show hidden files" so that I could rewrite the code to use cras again. Wahoo! Finally an answer to this two month problem!
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Re: How to Make ALSA a Working Audio Device w/ Interface in REAPER

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Congrats! I'm glad that everything is working for you.
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