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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by supernintendo on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:39PM (#26059278)
As a weirdo who makes music and uses Linux as their only OS, I suppose I'll leave a little positivity in this thread. Yes, JACK does take some effort to setup and configure but once everything's in place it really is a dream environment. One of my favorite features (which I'm sure exists on other platforms but just works so well on Linux) is using Catia to route audio and MIDI between software and hardware devices on the fly. It also works perfectly with my external USB audio device (Behringer UMC404HD) which always gave me problems on Windows for some reason.

I've been running this on my Ryzen desktop with Arch Linux installed for about a year now and it's been incredibly stable and reliable. I haven't had any issues with playback or recording latency either. Along with Bitwig this is my favorite audio production setup ever and I used Ableton on a Mac for years. If you're looking for a good tutorial on configuring JACK, I'd highly recommend this video from Unfa on YouTube [0]. He does a lot of Linux and free software audio production content which you might find interesting.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgrqMv3Lzfk

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by oilbagz on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:02AM (#26062237)
You're not alone, I know tons of musicians who are moving to Linux for their DAW, having invested too much in Apple and facing re-licensing fees.
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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by pjmlp on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:20AM (#26064756)
So the cheap alternative is to throw away the whole setup and DAW plugins and start from scratch....
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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by supernintendo on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:32AM (#26064940)
Bitwig will work with all of your existing VSTs, MIDI hardware and of course media (audio samples, Soundfonts etc.) as will Ardour and any other DAW worth using. There's no need to start from scratch.
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