Does anyone have any reference material like a video or guide that made sense to them for how to route live audio in linux?
Most guides I see for music software on Linux seem to focus on Midi keyboards and audio generation on linux, rather than capturing live sound and working with that signal.
Context:
I have played guitar for a long time, and used and loved GNU/Linux for 4 years. But I have never really married the two hobbies.
I use digital/modelling rigs all the time. And I know all of those pieces of gear I love are just little specialized computers.
I don’t really have an interest in recording. But the idea of using my GNU/Linux computers as a modeling rig for home fun has always intrigued me.
I found something called a “plugin host” named “Element” by Kushview. It seems to be the perfect tool for what I am looking for.
But I cannot figure out the basics of how to select just the input of my audio interface, get it to route through Element, and then exit out to my speakers.
I remember having this issue back when I tried Ubuntu Studio a few years back and read about Jack, but could never figure it out when I was trying to understand how to use Ardour. A DAW like that, Garageband, Cakewalk, and others always felt like overkill for what I was looking to do, and it was difficult to understand how to work with those. Which is also difficult because it means I don’t really have much of a frame of reference for how to use these “plugin hosts”.
Thank you for any help/thoughts.