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Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 6:39 am
by khz
What do you use for your LAW?
If there are special tricks you can also paste them here (for example: How to route Pulseaudio to Jack, ...
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# ALSA https://alsa-project.org/wiki/Main_Page
# FFADO http://www.ffado.org/
JACK https://jackaudio.org/
PulseAudio https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/
PipeWire https://pipewire.org/



Route Pulseaudio to JACK: Install "pulseaudio-module-jack".
Stop Pulseaudio temporarily >> viewtopic.php?p=103154#p103154


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Thank you!

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Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:09 am
by khz
I took the wrong vote. I take Jack, of course, and not "just ALSA". :-)

Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:23 am
by tramp
I'm using most time jack+pulse, sometimes only jack (often), sometimes only pulse (rare case here). All on the base of ALSA.

Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:48 am
by khz
:-D

Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:54 am
by bluebell
I have jack-mixer as a central jack "hub" and use jack-plumbing to disconnect all clients that try to connect to system:out and connect them to jack-mixer. So I have jack-mixer as a central point for recordings with Audacity.

Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:50 am
by nils
I use my mainboard soundcard with pure ALSA and dmixer for consumer stuff like videos, games and music player and a PCI card with JACK for recording, mixing and midi.

Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:53 am
by chaocrator
voted ALSA/FFADO, but that's for a regular desktop tasks.
for audio production tasks, i run jack, of course.

Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:17 am
by korakios
For a single DAW , Alsa of course ,but if going modular and connect different apps ,I launch jack : )
Pulseaudio for everyday (non DAW) usage and can’t live without pulse anymore!

Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 8:28 pm
by khz
After I added PipeWire to the tuning, the counter reset to zero. ^^
Who wants to vote (again) is welcome to do so. ;-)

Re: Do you use a sound server? If so, which one? Several?

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:20 pm
by sunrat
PulseAudio and JACK here and been using that for a few years. I'm still highly sceptical about the current state of Pipewire although reports are starting to filter down of it being usable. PulseAudio was fairly rubbish in its neophyte years as well but has matured. I'm particularly concerned about seeing regular errors in journalctl from pipewire even though I don't use it. To be fair pulseaudio sometimes generates inconsequential errors generally related to the disabled HDMI audio in GPU. No JACK errors though. :)