Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix

Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by flatpanther on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:32PM (#26059540)

Try Ubuntu studio or another audio distro. I actually have the opposite problem, where Linux is the only one where latency is decent and reliable.

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by oilbagz on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:55AM (#26062184)

I concur, Ubuntu Studio is an amazing user experience out of the box. After install, everything is onboard and just works.

Not to mention, neither Mac or Windows come anywhere NEAR the awesomeness that is Zynthian .. and if anything demonstrates the amazing flexibility and power of Audio on Linux, its the Zynthian system.

http://zynthian.org/

Simply amazing audio!

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by Wowfunhappy on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:02PM (#26059681)

I wonder to what extent this is all just hardware dependent...

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by venamresm__ on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:00AM (#26062222)

It is mostly hardware dependent. Most people don't have a clue what they are talking about. The software layer is only there to take care of buffering going towards the hardware and conversions that needs to happen such as resampling. When it comes to low-latency, the difference lies in how that buffer is handled. Otherwise you can always play in bit-perfect mode where no software changes anything in the stream. I gave a small overview of it in this section: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2021/02/07/audio-stack.ht...

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by ungamedplayer on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:44AM (#26062916)

> I don't want to spend my time digging through ancient forum posts on why jack/pulse can't "just work"

This means "I don't want to think about it" installing a whole distro is way too much work for someone with this attitude.

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