Hello there,

seeking some major help here.

I've been recording once in a while my drumset, using my laptop webcam + my sound mixer table(Behringer).

In the past I used to record the audio with audacity and the video with obs. But now I do both at the same time with OBS, since the audio input is the same.

I have my drum mics connected to the sound table and then use the headphones output (rca?) cables to join them in jack 3.5 which I connect to my laptop via the mic/headphone jack input.

The trouble im having is with the volume. To keep the master output on orange-green, I have to put the mic volume of the laptop very low which is bad because the result is a very low volume video.

But if I move the mic volume higher on pc, the sound table will shoot to red for some reason and the sound will get distorted. I have no idea what I have to do anymore... So I could use some help from some sound pros :/

I currently use OBS flatpak and kde (gnome doesn't recognize jack as audio input for some odd reason).

And the sound table im using is this one:

Behringer Xenyx 1002B

I've got no issues with my instrument whatsoever, is the damn audio mixing and recording that makes me want to pull all my hair...

I'm considering buying a DAC for my RPi 4 (maybe a USB one or one of those HifiBerry hats. That is advertised as a quality improvement over the 3,5mm audio out, although the two connectors (RCA vs 3,5mm) apparently transmit the exact same (unbalanced, analog) kind of signal, at the same quality.

So: do you think it's worth the investment? Better sound quality?

I'd also hope that it would fight the electric humming:

I've noticed that handling the 3,5mm output jack on my RPi 4, as well as manipulating the connections between some adapters I have between the cables to my stereo (because they're too short), produces humming (which is probably caused by a ground loop, but still).

- RCA/cinch cables have a better grip on their counterpart and seem less susceptible to disturbances - can anyone confirm this to be true? This idea (RCA has less disturbances) is also the reason I'm considering the DAC.

Other than that (if true), waht would be other advantages?

Hello. I've got Linux Mint 22, now with PulseAudio, tested previously with PipeWire. Also, have M-Audio Oxygen 25. Pain in ass. Mint can't detect it on PulseAudio and PipeWire. Yes, I have everything for jack and alsa. Tried on every USB port and nothing. This is sad. What can I do?

I'm switching to linux audio (just installed fedorajam yesterday), so, I have to go through the lazy job of installing plugins.

I don't expect that the ones I normally use on windows work here (arturia things, UVIw, etc). So, where can I find some nice alternatives???? I know that many people use some kind of bridges via wine and stuff like that... But I don't want that, for resource reasons (laptop) and time consuming reasons (I don't have that much time to figure out how to fix stuff that doesn't work).

So, where can I find nice pianos and eventually, random instruments that could sound nice too. ??

Btw, I use Bitwig/Reaper (Mostly Reaper tho)

Thanks!

I am currently experiencing an Issue with the Internal audio interface of a new Mixer I have (Mackie Profx 12v3+).

The audio coming through is completely distorted on my machine (works fine on a winshit machine i tested with as a control).

From how i interpret what i hear, the issue seems like there are constant buffer underflows with the audio buffers which might be related to a sample rate mismatch but i that is only speculation on my side.

Has anyone an idea what could be causing this and how i can fix it?

If you want a sample of what it sounds like, comment and I'll send it to you as reddit won't allow me to attach the file to this post.

There's something I've never understood. When I set sample rate to e.g. 96000 in qjackctl or run pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-rate 96000, that only defines what sample rates applications should use to read and write audio data from and to a software-based audio system within Linux, right?

Does it have any effect on how many samples per second a common USB audio interface like the Scarlett 2i2's DAC produces from an analog signal?

What about buffer size? Does it only influence communication between Linux and running applications, or does it actually configure the physical audio interface through USB to use a certain buffer size for its DAC?

If sample rates are only set for software within Linux, would that not cause resampling from the fixed sample rate of the device?

Hi, I have a problem with my audio. Whenever I use discord (also tested with teamspeak3) and play a youtube video, everyone can hear the sound of it. The activation meter in discord and from pavucontrol shows that it every bit of sound from the video gets directed to the mic.

Also I only have my soundcard(?) as only option for both output and input. There's the problem I think. In pavuctronl I can choose profiles and I used Analog Stereo Duplex because that's the one that is working almost as intened.

EDIT -- I checked if loopback is enabled in alsamixer but it wasn't --

I have tried with the help of chatgpt, to create virtual sinks with pactl and directing sound to it with pavucontrol but I had no option to choose from.

My Spec:

- Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Motherboard

- Realtek ALC1220-VB codec

- Headset has 2 Cables (Mic, Headphone)

- Mic Cable into Mic

- Headohone into Line Out

- PopOS 24.04 (Kernel 6.9.3-76060903-generic)

- i3wm

- Pipewire

pactl list: https://pastebin.com/gWGsJHjh

pactl list modules: https://pastebin.com/8RsPLwHm

pactl list sinks: https://pastebin.com/0vfNM9gu

I want to do some small performances at parties, I use reaper to make my tracks with cardinal synth and vital synth. I have a linux laptop. Should I stick with reaper for live or would ardour work fine? I run fedora on my laptop

Linux audio confuses me: alsa, pulse, jack, pipewire etc

I have a usb out from my rpi4 into a dac that goes to my amp & speakers.

It sounds fine much of the time but gets messy if the pi is busy with other stuff and I have no idea what going on behind the scenes.

How do I feed my usb dac straight flac?

I like to leave my wine (staging) on auto-update, because I use some VSTs that don't yet fully work and I'm waiting for a future update to fix them.

That said: the latest update seems to have caused a problem where mouse-clicks in my VST windows (via yabridge, in BitWig, latest public version) are now "offset." Clearly the window is behaving as if it's in the upper-left corner of my screen with NO window header/decoration.

I can "fix" this by turning on "Emulate a Virtual Desktop" in winecfg, but that has proven to be a real PITA work-around: it blocks my Ubuntu desktop completely and any time a new window opens up (e.g.: I load a new synth or an open window creates a dialog box), I am shunted out of BitWig and onto a blank Windows desktop. This isn't fatal (I just alt-tab back), but it's really, REALLY disruptive to my workflow. Seriously.

I've tried all possible combinations of the other two "Graphics" check-boxes in winecfg ("Allow the window manager to decorate the windows" "Allow the window manager to control the windows"), but unchecking either of them makes it worse (the mouse no longer registers any clicks at all).

...Is anyone aware of a workaround to this? I'd really hate to freeze my wine to an older version. :(

TIA.

Hello,
In Audition, I can compare two or more tracks using Frequency Analysis (after applying Match Loudness).
It seems that Audacity can't do this (only small segment of audio, and no overlay)
Are there any solutions on Linux?

https://i.redd.it/iwoobjk88h3e1.gif

Hello,

Just want to double check I'm not overlooking something before I buy a replacement, so appreciate any ideas.

It's been a while (couple years, and a few distro hops) since I last tried to record anything through my USB interface (Behringer UMC1820). I normally use REAPER configured to use JACK, which always auto-connects everything through Pipewire, and just works. I use Qpwgraph for Pipewire and can confirm it is connecting everything correctly.

Unfortunately now, only playback through the interface is working -- can't record from any of its inputs. However, I am able to record from other devices, for instance, a USB webcam, and another USB interface.

Specific to the UMC1820, the "Monitoring" is set to "In 1-2", "Stereo", and the "Mix" knob is at 50%, which should be correct.

It feels silly to post at this point, but might save me $200, so doesn't hurt!

Thanks for reading!

So I’ve had the Arturia V collection for a while, and they worked great. I used the Yarbridge to get the plug-ins into our Ardour, but then suddenly, today, all of the GUI for the synth plug-ins are misaligned with the mouse, so I can’t change any of the parameters.

Has anyone had a similar problem or knows how to fix it?

Ubuntu Studio and Ardour's latest version

Hello,
i want to have a simple option to use a raspberry as a host for vst instruments and effects as a standalone application for my stage piano. Its for live playing at home, no high reliability needed. Latency ofc is a thing.
I have a STeinberg UR22 Midi / Audio interface that i could use for it.
I thought about using reaper?
Controlls are a thing ofc. is there a way to have a full desktop over webinterface?

Any other ideas or suggestions maybe similar projects?

I am writing a driver for a pci soundcard i made. however i am struggling to find documentation on streaming native dsd using alsa, and my previous attempts have crashed the kernel. does anyone know where to look? or have more information on the matter?

I'm very interested in ordering one of these. Midi clock and USB audio over usb. As of a year ago it is USB class compliant, so in theory it should work with linux, but I'd be interested to hear what the experience has been like from any users. Thanks!

So, long story short I have tried to use Carla for my recording setup for live audio. I was using standard Arch before but recently did a CACHYOS install and configuration and now I can't get Carla to see my audio sinks at all. All pertinent stuff is showing. As you can see in the top right it is not showing the sinks you can see in pavucontrol in the bottom left. You can see my service status in the top left and my relevant Carla settings in the bottom right.

Any help is much appreciated, thankyou.

https://preview.redd.it/o9j4s61i103e1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=da531434955778a422bbcd5197417374e494c97c

hi folks,

i am trying to connect an expression pedal to a wah plugin in a daw through the behringer interfaces's midi.

i have

the pedal in slot 1

the midi cable with usb in pc

jack sees it ok

anyone can teach me how to connect the pedal to any program? could be carla, ardour, bitwig..

thank you

https://preview.redd.it/g6igh9g9wz2e1.png?width=1183&format=png&auto=webp&s=50f5e2b195559907187cce2e62a2227d85b519db

I recently got back into music production and went to download the latest version of TAL Sampler, only to find that it crashes when trying to load the Windows version of the plugin in WINE.

The last version I had was 4.5.7, and it works perfectly with WINE. Because TAL does not allow downloading specific versions, I can't pinpoint exactly where it stopped being compatible. However, I have tried the last two releases, and both had the same problem.

I'm guessing that this is an issue with rendering the GUI, as I can still hear the trial version static in the background even after it has "crashed."

I'm using Wine 9.21, and it runs my 4.5.7 version without error. Yes, I know that there is a Linux native version, but my entire DAW setup runs just fine in WINE, and it's less complex than using something like yawbridge.

Here are the logs of when I tried to launch the plugin twice, both times unsuccessfully:

[2024-11-24 15:48:37.903 float-document-master info] Loaded 0 of 1 plug-ins [2024-11-24 15:48:37.975 notifications info] Loading plugins...: [2024-11-24 15:48:38.166 float-document-master info] Engine loaded plug-in TAL-Togu Audio Line TAL Sampler at float_core.float_document/track_group/owned_main_tracks#0/device_chain/devices#0/device_contents [2024-11-24 15:48:38.167 float-document-master info] Finished loading plug-in TAL-Togu Audio Line TAL Sampler at float_core.float_document/track_group/owned_main_tracks#0/device_chain/devices#0/device_contents (0 queued) [2024-11-24 15:48:38.168 float-document-master info] Loaded 1 of 1 plug-ins [2024-11-24 15:48:38.170 float-document-master info] Loading all plug-ins took 265 ms [2024-11-24 15:48:38.197 float-document-master info] FloatDocument.isEngineReadyChanged(false->true) wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0000000000000010 at address 00006FFFFB31CEFB (thread 0540), starting debugger... 0658:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module 0658:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module 0658:err:dbghelp:pe_load_msc_debug_info -Debug info stripped, but no .DBG file in module L"user32" [2024-11-24 15:48:39.631 float-document-master error] Plug-in crashed TAL-Togu Audio Line TAL Sampler at float_core.float_document/track_group/owned_main_tracks#0/device_chain/devices#0/device_contents [2024-11-24 15:48:39.634 float-document-master info] FloatDocument.isEngineReadyChanged(true->false) [2024-11-24 15:48:39.640 float-document-master info] FloatDocument.isEngineReadyChanged(false->true) [2024-11-24 15:48:39.642 notifications error] Plug-ins crashed: [2024-11-24 15:49:03.155 float-document-master info] Started loading plug-in TAL-Togu Audio Line TAL Sampler at float_core.float_document/track_group/owned_main_tracks#0/device_chain/devices#0/device_contents (0 queued) [2024-11-24 15:49:03.155 float-document-master info] Loaded 0 of 1 plug-ins [2024-11-24 15:49:03.155 float-document-master info] FloatDocument.isEngineReadyChanged(true->false) [2024-11-24 15:49:03.160 notifications info] Loading plugins...: [2024-11-24 15:49:03.341 float-document-master info] Engine loaded plug-in TAL-Togu Audio Line TAL Sampler at float_core.float_document/track_group/owned_main_tracks#0/device_chain/devices#0/device_contents [2024-11-24 15:49:03.341 float-document-master info] Finished loading plug-in TAL-Togu Audio Line TAL Sampler at float_core.float_document/track_group/owned_main_tracks#0/device_chain/devices#0/device_contents (0 queued) [2024-11-24 15:49:03.341 float-document-master info] Loaded 1 of 1 plug-ins [2024-11-24 15:49:03.341 float-document-master info] Loading all plug-ins took 187 ms [2024-11-24 15:49:03.347 float-document-master info] FloatDocument.isEngineReadyChanged(false->true) [2024-11-24 15:49:03.497 base-platform info] Clocks drifted apart and have been resynced

Does anyone know how to resolve an issue with "float-document-master?"

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm running FL Studio through Wine. So for some reason everything works, besides the visuals. Anytime I try to change a setting or something the whole thing freezes, but if I reload the graphical side by clicking into settings it works again. It's still possible to use, and the standalone version works fine, but I want to know if there's any fix.

Hello, I have a very stable recording setup with an Audient iD44 MKII running on Ubuntu 24.04, and I use Reaper as my DAW. Everything works flawlessly when I stick to the 4 analog inputs on the iD44. However, as soon as I connect my Audient ASP880 via ADAT, I get heavy glitching on the digital inputs. This exact setup works perfectly on Windows, so I don’t think it’s a clocking or sample rate issue. I’ve tried different connections, and I’ve tested ALSA, JACK, and PipeWire configurations, but nothing resolves the problem.

Could this be a Linux driver or compatibility issue with the iD44 and ADAT? Has anyone encountered something similar or found a solution? Any help or insight would be much appreciated!

I upgraded to Wine Staging 9.22 today and all my Windows plugins using yabridge no longer work. I suspect it might have something to do with 9.22 enabling a Wayland driver by default, but I am not sure. Is anyone else experiencing this issue and know how I might fix it? Should I just downgrade back to 9.21 for now? I am running Kubuntu 24.04.1 and using x11, not Wayland.

Thinking about getting a cheap Beelink mini pc(cheaper than a pi) getting a small touch screen monitor and using it to run some Vsts with my USB keyboard. (Korg Liano). Has any one here done this?

EDIT:
To make this thread a lot more useful for future viewers, I removed my "life story" element from it (a.k.a way too detailed description of the issue that basically boiled down to:

I try to live loop in Bitwig on Linux while using OBS, at 48k/128 sample rate/buffer size, and I'm getting way too many Xruns, especially when I open/minimize/maximize other apps.

This was slightly discouraging because my PC isn't super old, and I thought Ubuntu Studio configuration would perform similarly to what I was used to on Windows.

What helped:

1. I installed LTS version of Ubuntu Studio (24.04.1 LTS vs. Ubuntu Studio 24.10).
2. I run this script (just follow the instructions on the website, even if you never used terminal before it's pretty straightforward copy-paste affair): https://codeberg.org/rtcqs/rtcqs
3. After running the script, I discovered three different things I could "fix" to improve real time audio performance: Specter/Meltdown mitigations (I didn't touch that), power management and CPU frequency optimizations.
4. The latter two are addressed on the linuxaudio.org website:

• - https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration#cpu_frequency_scaling
• - https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration#quality_of_service_interface

If you're a total noob, making both of those changes permanent via Systemd Unit is slightly less straightforward than running the rtcqs script, but only because, linuxaudio.org instruction is not "user-proof, just copy-past this" kinda guide. It's still fairly simple, but if you're having issues with it, I'm sure Linux community will be happy to help.

I haven't stress-tested my current setup, but I did some live looping with the template I used initially to find the issue, and so far so good, so the fixes definitely help. The CPU fixes didn't increase the temps meaningfully, so that's good too. Hope this helps!

Does anyone have experience or knows how to connect a m-audio oxygen 49 to ardour to control faders and record play and stop buttons and connect the pots to control a software instrument when playing that instrument?

Hello everyone!

I would like to be able to just turn on my midi keyboard and have it automatically connect to a midi instrument (I'm using Dore Mark's NY S&S Model B-v4.1) that I have loaded in Carla. As it is now I have to open Carla and manually connect the nodes, which is a small, but annoying thing, since my keyboard auto shuts off after a while and the connection goes away...

Could someone just tell me what I need to learn to be able to do this, since I cannot seem to be able to get my head around the PipeWire/Wireplumber documentation? I'm not looking for fish, nor for someone to help me learn to fish, just a pointer about what I need to know in order to start to learn about fishing and whether or not fishing is maybe not suited to me, so to speak!

I'm on Ubuntu studio 24.04 right now, and I'm not really interested in recording what I play right now, just in being able to get quick and easy sounds from my keyboard.

Hey, i`ve spent already few months trying all the ways to wrap all system sounds with an effect. Right now i use pipewire with pipewire-jack and pipewire-pulse as an audio driver. My goal is to use Carla just like EqualizerAPO on Win. I mean i need to connect all system sounds to effect and the effect is connected to speakers output.
The problem is that i get separate object for each application in patchbay, but i saw pictures of patchbay where there`s just one "system" object which can be easily connected to an effect, just like i want. EasyEffects is not what i need - the effect i use is unique (reafir) and easyeffects does not offer to use custom effects. (I use reafir to calibrate frequency response of my studio speakers). So, how do i get "system" object in Carla patchbay?