Hi Keith, First of all thanks for the detailed feedback, more inline: On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 1:21 PM Keith Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Christian, > > I've been exclusively using pipewire and been happy with it. It has > provided me with low latency and seems to identify all of my hardware > correctly. Using Carla, I'm able to re-wire my audio to fit my current > workflow. There have been some issues: > > - When freewheeling wasn't implemented I was shutdown from rendering in > Ardour for a couple of weeks. That's now fixed > > -Ardour seemed to be unstable with pipewire. That's from both my > experience and what I've read on various forums. > > You say seemed (as in the past), but I get the understanding here that this is still the case for you right? > -While App developers tend to try to be helpful, there's not a wide > acceptance of pipewire yet. A common response is to go back to Jack, or > switch to alsa. I've come across several individuals in forums who > advocate to everyone to avoid pipewire and stick with jack. > Yeah, that is always going to be a challenge, hopefully as PipeWire gets wider adoption and further improves the resistance will fall away. > -I switched to Reaper, but Reaper fails to reconnect everything in > pipewire. This is annoying as every time I restart Reaper, or render in > Reaper I have to go into Carla and reconnect my sources and sinks. > I have no experience with this, but can I assume that what you are saying is that Reaper do reconnect everything if you use Jack? Or is it just that Reaper in compared to Ardour doesn't reconnect everything? > -Reaper has no way to set pipewire buffer size and I couldn't get jackCtl > to work to control it. Apparently this works with Jack? My work around is > to define the environmental variable to set pipewire buffer when evoking > Reaper from the command line, > Does the workaround from Wim in comment 9 fix this issue for you? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949421 > -Gucview no longer saves audio under pipewire during video recording and > there seems to be no progress, or even acknowledgement of where the problem > lies. > Ok, something that needs to debugged further > -I customized alsa-monitoring to rename my audio interface and its ports, > but upon updating pipewire all the customization was overwritten. The > update did back-up the original file, however having to re-do the > customization every time pipewire updates is annoying > Ok, also worth looking into what we can do. > -Finally, I wish there was a set of good quality GUI utilities > specifically for pipewire available from Fedora repository. I believe such > utilities would go a long way in giving the impression that pipewire is > polished and a worthy replacement for Jack and pulseaudio. > Agreed, it is an area where I hope the community will step up and help though as Wim got limited time and thus things like these ends up getting pushed down his priority list. > > I hope this helps, > It is very helpful, thank you. > > On 7/1/21 6:06 AM, Christian Fredrik Schaller wrote: > > Hi everyone, > So we have been shipping PipeWire for a bit now and Wim has of course been > pushing out regular updates with bugfixes and enhancements. So I am not a > pro-audio user myself so I wanted to ask how things are going, is PipeWire > usable as a daily driver for ProAudio folks now or do you find yourself > reverting to Jack ? > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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