Thanks everyone who came yesterday and tried my little app. I released the app on AUR yesterday and is available on github here (https://github.com/knightinfected/PipeWireController). The current version is 0.1.2 and some of the screenshots are from 0.2
I received a ton of negative comments and messages regarding my use of AI. I spent a lot of my time on this and well over did this project abit and english being my secondary language didnt help.
I have gone down this audio rabbit hole in linux and anyone else who has also done it knows how annoying it gets especially with reading the wikis to actual application.

Anyhow I hope it helps someone out there and I will be updating it in the next day or later today as I am currently testing. Version 0.1.2 is available as of right now on GitHub though.

There are too many features to list them out so I added lot of screenshots to help understand and showcase.

I've been a Cubase user for years, but I've grown out of Windows and had a taste of other DAWs and systems (currently using Reaper as it's multi-system available). I always liked Linux more so I'm trying to move everything to it.

Still my biggest and hardest VST to install on linux is anything Steinberg related. Everything I try to do gets me the unrecoverable error as I attached here.

I no longer know what to do and dual boot into macOS Hackintosh every time I want to do something music wise.

If anyone can help, I'll be thankful.

Why do the connections for 'capture' sit on the RH side of the module? I would think capturing a signal would be on the left, because wouldn't it be capturing a signal coming from the left of it. (Yes I'm biased toward reading such a 'flow chart' from left to right).

I assume right goes to left, and left goes to right. It'd sure be easier if, like in VCV Rack, impossible or incorrect jack connections are greyed out

Okay, here's a big one:

I've been a bit of a pro audio enthusiast for most of my adult life, but as a Linux user, one of my biggest disappointments has been the lack of any Thunderbolt (i.e., ultra-low latency) audio interfaces on the market that work with Linux.

For those unaware, most USB-powered audio devices play well with Linux out-of-the-box because they comply with the USB Audio Class specification. Thanks to Apple's history of stressing "class compliance" to pro audio hardware vendors, a single USB Audio Class-compatible ALSA driver (snd-usb-audio) allows most USB audio interfaces on the market to provide basic functionality out-of-the-box on Linux.

Unfortunately, however, there's no such thing as a "Thunderbolt Audio Class" specification. In fact, to this day the Linux kernel doesn't contain a single upstreamed ALSA driver for a pro audio Thunderbolt audio interface. And to that end, I present you with my project:

A Linux audio (ALSA) driver for the Focusrite Clarett (Thunderbolt 2) line of audio interfaces!

The Focusrite Clarett Thunderbolt line includes the following devices, though most of these devices are also available in USB variants:

• Clarett 2Pre
• Clarett 4Pre
• Clarett 8Pre
• Clarett 8PreX

For the last couple years—and the last couple months in earnest—I've been working on a clean-room reverse-engineered ALSA driver to allow a Thunderbolt-capable Linux host to communicate with the Clarett Thunderbolt line of products. And, as of a week ago, I've finally managed to make enough progress to establish basic functionality across the control plane. No PCM functionality yet though, unfortunately.

Because Focusrite provides USB-equivalent versions of most of their Clarett Thunderbolt devices—and because the Linux community already provides an upstream driver and user-space CLI/GUI tools for those devices—I've recently managed to "vibe code" some basic integration between my own ALSA driver and the already-available user-space tools for the Clarett USB line of devices.

As I stated earlier, my driver unfortunately doesn't support PCM streams yet, which means there's currently no way to stream audio between the Linux host and the Clarett devices (via the Thunderbolt cable) yet. Things are to the point, however, where I'm able to route S/PDIF (optical) input from my Linux host to the Clarett analog output channels and play music through a pair of studio monitors (i.e., audio speakers).

There's still so much to do, of course! At this point, though, things are in a good enough place that I'm ready to share my development progress with the community. I hope to release the source code to the public soon. Hope you like it!

alsa-scarlett-gui

Live performance software could be:

OBS for live streaming, Mixxx, Ardour, ProjectM for live visuals while playing music, and etc.

Feel free to share creative answers.

Maybe one of you has the idea that clicks.

I downloaded the Amp Locker Linux version from the official website and copied the two .so files to /vst3 and /lv2. Yet Reaper throws an error whenever I scan for new plugins and lists the Amp Locker under “plug-ins that failed to scan”.

What am I missing?

NeuralDSP's amp sims such as Archtype: John Mayer X require iLok's PACE License Support to work. Unfortunately, automatic (and manual) installation of that fails with generic error when using Wine 10+, effectively preventing use of the plugin.

I was able to track down the cause, and it seems to be simply few failing installer prerequisites. So, I wrote a script that captures the msi package during first install attempt, overrides few specific prerequisite related conditions, repackages the msi and installs it.

I did my work against Wine 11 (stable) and it seems the same trick does not work for Wine 10.

But, yes, NeuralDSP is now perfectly usable with Wine 11, using my installer patching. Also "winetricks dxvk" needs to be applied for the used wineprefix, so the plugin's GUI is responsive.

I've done only minimal testing, so I'd be very happy if others could test and verify my solution works for them, too.

https://github.com/sirsipe/ilok-pace-license-support-wine11-scripts

I have Ubuntu on my laptop and want to compose music for some personal projects. I like the size of FL studio and it's free version is still quite nice, but I've heard that it runs poorly. I've also seen Ardour recommended as a good FOSS DAW for Linux, but I'm wondering how well it works and if it's better than emulating FL Studio.

This is the second song I recorded and produced for my new German post-punk band, using only FOSS Software.

The music was made entirely in Ardour, for the video I used Kdenlive to glue my cover and the audio together.

Feedback very welcome!

This is WayVes, an open-source audio visualiser framework I've been building for Wayland.

This setup stacks 18 separate visualisers together, with different visual elements reacting to different parts of the audio spectrum. Audio is captured through PipeWire, processed and fed to the GLSL shaders, with each visualiser independently configurable.

The idea behind WayVes was to go beyond running a single spectrum visualiser and instead treat the desktop almost like a canvas - combining Linear, Angular, and particle-based effects into one audio-reactive scene.

This particular config is admittedly on the extreme end 😆, but that's also what made it fun to build.

WayVes is open source, hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/Roonil/WayVes, and I've since added quite a bit more to the project, including GLSL hot-reloading and some more shader functionality.

Would love to hear what the Linux audio crowd thinks, especially about the audio-reactive side of it!

Included pretty much everything from pipewire's wiki that i found to be important or useful.
I have used AI in building this program and i hope its not an issue as the utility of this little program suppresses the AI hate train by a large margin lol

Originally wanted something to change filter chains without editing configs especially adding/removing hrir files and well i like tinkering and ended up here. Filter chains cuz my old laptop can only run easy effects for an hour or so before crashing. Anyhow i hope I get people to try it out.

Forgot to add link -- https://github.com/knightinfected/PipeWireController

Edit- just added it on AUR (pipewire-controller) and have updated the screenshots on GitHub

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get 5.1 audio working over optical S/PDIF on NixOS (Realtek ALC897 onboard audio), but I'm stuck.

In pavucontrol and pactl list cards, the only output profile showing up for my S/PDIF card is Digital Stereo (IEC958) (along with Pro Audio). There are no 5.1 / Digital Surround profiles listed at all.

When I was using Arch Linux with PulseAudio on the exact same hardware, the 5.1 surround profiles showed up normally without any issues.

Here is what I currently have in my configuration.nix:

Nix

hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
security.rtkit.enable = true;

services.pipewire = {
  enable = true;
  alsa.enable = true;
  alsa.support32Bit = true;
  pulse.enable = true;
  wireplumber.enable = true;
};

Is there a specific package, firmware, udev rule, or WirePlumber/ALSA configuration I need to add to my NixOS config to get 5.1/AC3 digital output profiles to show up?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get 5.1 audio working over optical S/PDIF on NixOS (Realtek ALC897 onboard audio), but I'm stuck.

In pavucontrol and pactl list cards, the only output profile showing up for my S/PDIF card is Digital Stereo (IEC958) (along with Pro Audio). There are no 5.1 / Digital Surround profiles listed at all.

When I was using Arch Linux with PulseAudio on the exact same hardware, the 5.1 surround profiles showed up normally without any issues.

Here is what I currently have in my configuration.nix:

Nix
hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
security.rtkit.enable = true;

services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
pulse.enable = true;
wireplumber.enable = true;
};

Is there a specific package, firmware, udev rule, or WirePlumber/ALSA configuration I need to add to my NixOS config to get 5.1/AC3 digital output profiles to show up?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi again! After wishing for Linux support on HX Edit for too long, I decided to take matters into my own hands. By sniffing USB packets on the wire, I implemented a native editor that speaks the same protocol.

It's called fretwire. Built in Rust, has a GUI, MIT/Apache licensed.

Works, tested on HX Stomp:

• browse and load all 126 presets, save back to flash
• chain editing: add, delete, drag to reorder, move blocks to a parallel path
• param editing with sliders and dropdowns, including the paired cab/IR
• model swap, with the DSP meter greying out anything that won't fit
• snapshots, split/mixer routing, rename
• follows the hardware — hit a footswitch or change a snapshot on the pedal and the GUI updates

Doesn't work (yet):

• global settings (input impedance, pad, output levels) aren't decoded
• IR import/export is partly reverse engineered, not implemented
• restore-from-backup passes its tests but hasn't been run against a real device. Backup itself is read only and safe.
• I only own a Stomp. XL should work. Full Helix and HX Effects won't, without changes.

It never sends firmware, flash or DFU traffic.

No Line 6 data ships with it. Model and parameter names come from a copy you point it at, easily extracted from the installer (free download from Line 6). Instructions in the README; the extractor is built-in. Without that it still works, you just get numeric parameter indices instead of names.

Not affiliated with Line 6 or Yamaha. Back up your device/presets before writing anything.

Github

I would love to have people give it a try and give feedback!

I used audio players and streaming through Firefox. They only output to right and left speakers. Not the system of 2.1 output what the system is configured as. The output is set to 2.1 and the test sound does use the right and left and bass speakers. It’s driving me crazy. I went from cachy to fedora to Ubuntu stock. I want to test listen to the sounds I create with different channels like the bass.

I've been building a few plugins for Linux and Windows. My latest was BiteRotator and I'm thinking more about how I'm running my trials/demos.

The options I keep going back and forth on are:

• Time-limited full trial: everything unlocked X amount of days then it stops.
• Free "lite" version: stripped-down feature set, free forever, upgrade for the rest.
• Unlimited but output is disruptive: full features, no expiry, but it drops out / adds noise every 30s or so.

There's probably some I haven't thought of.

I used FL in a VM before but challenged myself to completely quit windows.

I bought Ardour.

Very intuitive.

Problem is the plugins.

With FL i had the fruity plugins.

I am used to opening hardcore and just choosing random presets till I get inspired.

That is not possible with any linux plugin I have downloaded. (Guitarix does not work the way I want it to inside Ardour, only the standalone app works with the presets)

I know about Yabridge and am willing to use it.

I have a humble request.

If you have any windows VST plugins that you know for certain will work on yabridge and comes with factory presets. Please share.

Bonus points if you can straight up give me the VST that way I dont have to spend forever installing each of them through wine.

Understand I am a broke collage student (atm) and cannot just buy plugins.

I simply use free ones.

Thank you in advance.

You people rock :3

I would like to change my OS and switch to Linux (I'm a noob ATM), but Rx is somewhat indispensable to me, and I haven't found any recent information on whether it's possible to install it on a version of Linux.

Has anyone managed to install it? And if possible, could they provide the necessary setup instructions?

I switched to Linux Mint last year after getting very frustrated with Windows. I had to do a lot of internet surfing and spent over 8 hours setting it up.

I use Wine 10.0 and Yabridge works good in it. Any more than wine 10 and vsts don't work.

My DAW is Reaper

I use STL Emissary and STL Nadir

ReEQ

Gateway (NAM)

Dragon Fly Reverb

MT Power Drum kit

All of these plugins work great in Linux

I am in search of a good compressor.

On a Windows machine and use that as system module in a Linux powered studio.

It's not as hard as it sounds! Or all that expensive, really.

Are you dedicated to your art? Or are you a couple of hundred bucks in and figure that's the end of this hobby?

(I'm literally laughing out loud, but what do I know?)

I'm looking at a Ryzen 5 powered 8G ram laptop for $450 and adding that to my studio to run my IK Multimedia 400G sample library. I'll run Bitwig on my desktop and control it from there. Easy peasy. No vsts. Just the power of Linux networking. We're talking the speed of light here! Over an ethernet cable they might as well be the same machine. Does anyone speak Linux here? Anybody know anything about how computers work? Linux does networking like -- well, the internet runs on Linux and that's not just about numbers it DRIVES the internet, yeah maybe some people don't use it but they really don't matter all that much in the bigger scheme of things!

If you had to choose which would it be?

To be fair this is r/linuxaudio and some people might not even care about music at all and I might be in the wrong place. This is a good survey for this sub-reddit though. What do people care most about?