pkg install audio/cardinal
github.com
In order to produce audio.
The Linux audio stack is not very good and the solution in their community is to keep kludging new band-aid additions onto the rube goldberg machine. I have to flat out remove pulse audio to ensure it won't ruin a recording session, regardless of what the JACK/pipewire fans want to claim about bugs being worked out. Once there's a standard process to get Reaper running on here without WINE i doubt many people will ask about Ardour anymore
The Linux audio stack is not very good and the solution in their community is to keep kludging new band-aid additions onto the rube goldberg machine. I have to flat out remove pulse audio to ensure it won't ruin a recording session, regardless of what the JACK/pipewire fans want to claim about bugs being worked out. Once there's a standard process to get Reaper running on here without WINE i doubt many people will ask about Ardour anymore
On my FreeBSD desktop, I installed Renoise with wine to test it and it runs very smooth. I tried Reaper in wine and it had some issues. I would love to try Renoise with Linuxulator, but it felt like too much to get it going. I followed chapter 12 in the handbook but somehow I got lost with it. I mainly use my Arch/Mint and OSX/Windows for audio so I am ok with wine Renoise on FreeBSD and the old school trackers, My FreeBSD audio work is just to have the ability to work on the beginnings of ideas in the event I happen to be using a FreeBSD install without having to go to my main rig or grab another laptop.
Sorry to hear you have issues with pipewire, I honestly don't have issues. I don't patch programs together though. I run a DAW and use native VST3 or LV2 plugins within the daw. Pipewire is not perfect though but it will mature and become the defacto IMO.The Linux audio stack is not very good and the solution in their community is to keep kludging new band-aid additions onto the rube goldberg machine. I have to flat out remove pulse audio to ensure it won't ruin a recording session, regardless of what the JACK/pipewire fans want to claim about bugs being worked out. Once there's a standard process to get Reaper running on here without WINE i doubt many people will ask about Ardour anymore
Cardinal is fantastic!!!
Thanks LibreQuest, are you using FreeBSD as your only audio OS? what programs do you like to use?
I use LMMS, Audacity and Ardour works as well but I've not needed it for anything lately. I don't have any place to record instruments set up. So I just make songs on LMMS sometimes when I feel like it.
I've not really done a lot with audio in many years other than lmms.Not yet but I intend to soon. I'm still playing around with some various audio interfaces to see how compliant they are but once I settle on one of those that's the next stop.
I use Windows 7 with an audio specific services/registry configuration for my studio recording stuff, not even joking lol. Its rock-solid and minimum latency systemwide, but its ancient and won't be a great solution forever. I was dabbling in Linux audio again recently and as above it wasn't great but not due to anything with Reaper's Linux build as near as I could tell. I certainly don't have any beef with Ardour either, I think it's great and I'll be using it extensively as well.
Had to reply a second time to address this part. I do agree with you that pipewire will likely become the go-to solution for using audio interfaces on Linux. Its literally just reinventing the Windows experience though when you have to rely on trying to just bypass the regular audio system to make your audio device work...it creates layers of band-aids. The reason audio interface drivers from the reputable companies are so good on Windows definitely is in spite of Windows itself and not because of it...those devs are wizards working close to the assembly level to bypass garbage. You don't hear much about it because those folks have to sign NDAs but they are geniuses quite frankly.
It's only LMMS. LMMS has a lot of stuff built in that I don't use too. It's a good program.
miscreant, funny enough I started on the Cakewalk software but moved to Steinberg because I found it superior. Man I still have a soft spot for Nuendo, I considered it to be the actual greatest DAW, much better than ProTools in the pre-Reaper days. Many a flame war were had in the 2000s over that opinion.
