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Re:FreeBSD Home Audio Studio by smoldesu on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:59AM (#34995689)
You're not wrong, and I suspect it has something to do with hardware. My Behringer U-Phoria worked fine on Linux, then my Scarlett shit itself, then I replaced it with a MOTU M2 which does just fine. If you interface isn't USB-class-compliant, don't expect it to work on Linux.

> By definition neither Jack nor Pipewire can be faster than the ALSA they are talking to.

Sure, but that's like saying that you don't need an operating system when you can compile to baremetal. Both Jack and Pipewire are slower, but offer pretty substantial routing options on top of that. Furthermore, I believe both protocols support ALSA connections too.

I use Bitwig on NixOS and it's not too bad with PipeWire. Latency and routability generally rivals CoreAudio, which is good enough for me.

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Re:FreeBSD Home Audio Studio by bandrami on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:07PM (#34998452)
IME Bitwig is heavyweight enough it doesn't really matter what you're connecting with, plus it "wants" Pipewire (IIRC that's the only thing CLAP will work with?)

And I don't want to sound like I'm dumping on Pipewire; I think the work Wim has been doing is absolutely awesome and (unlike a lot of what FDo puts out) actually solves existing problems rather than hypothetical ones. It's just not quite (yet) what I need as a DJ and looper.

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Re:FreeBSD Home Audio Studio by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:23PM (#34998709)
Plugin APIs like CLAP have no connection to platform audio/midi I/O APIs.
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