Hello everyone! Brand new Linux Musician here. I just switched from Windows couple months ago and one of the challenges I've been facing is getting my system ready for pro audio.
I have an Asus Zenbook UX3402ZA laptop with the following hardware and software:
CPU: Intel Core i7 1260p
RAM: 16GB LPDDR5 on board
SSD: 1TB M.2 NVMe™ PCIe® 4.0 Performance SSD
OS: Fedora 39
DAW: REAPER
I've tried Linux Mint, Debian 12 and now Fedora. Fedora is the distro that has given me the best performance and stability.
When it comes to audio production, I've followed two different guides:
This one: brendaningram / linux-audio-setup-scripts / Fedora 38
And this one: patrickl / wine-tkg (which is the one above but with fewer steps)
Fedora comes pre-installed with Pipewire, however Fedora 39 comes with JACK instead of Pipewire JACK, so I made the switch after following the guides I mentioned, then tried to make some music but I've come across these issues:
- When I'm using Pipewire JACK the audio latency is fine for a few moments but then it ramps up to like 1 second. This happens when I open a random plugin, or when I have another program open like firefox and I do random things like open a tab or play a video.
- When I'm using JACK the latency stays stable, but I'm getting a hella lot of Xruns and stuttering.
My CPU governor is set to Performance, I installed the realtime-setup package and added myself to the realtime group (as instructed in the guides I mentioned earlier), and did everything else in the guides, but still my system isn't giving me the performance and stability I need for audio production.
Can anyone help me figure this out? I really want to make Linux and Audio Production work. It's the last piece of the puzzle to fully make the switch.
Thanks in advance!