#408

This is a low cost way to get 8in 8out via Adat. It appears to work in linux but not officially. Might be worth a try?

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#409

I have one of these but I don’t use it with any regularity. I bought it several years ago to use sending audio between a desktop and an iPad. Given that it worked on an iPad (as a class compliant audio interface) I would expect it to work on Linux without much issue.

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#410

Thanks for the experiences regarding LinVST. I run Bitwig with some Linux native plugins (thanks U-He etc.) and one big thing I’ve been missing is the Valhalla plugins. Seems like it’s time to try out the wrapper route if they actually work well.

IME class compliant USB 2 interfaces + the various tweaks offered by Ubuntu Studio setup (eg. low latency kernel patches & various small system settings that you can naturally replicate with any other distro) seem like quite a good bet for relatively worry-free audio. With the caveat that I’m no longer what you would consider a “discerning power user” so I’m not shooting for the absolute minimal latencies (those were the RME days…), just that I can trust audio not to lock up and glitch randomly before I push the system too hard.

Otherwise I was kind of in the same boat as you - jumping between Mac OS and Linux every now and then and ultimately staying with Mac OS due to some important applications and general smoothness of experience. Now, after a couple of years since late Spring it’s kind of the other way round: the Linux setup I have actually feels somewhat smoother for my general “casual” use. And due to focus shifting to development and exploration instead of getting “commercially feasible” (in the loosest sense of word) results, I find I have a very good toolkit on Linux side of things. I still miss eg. Logic for the workflow (Bitwig / Reaper don’t quite cut it for the same kind of compositional freedom for me) but as that’s no longer the main tool of trade, it’s not a big problem.

(I do still use Mac OS for online service development at work - would mildly prefer to switch to a good Linux laptop there as well, but I still like Mac OS as well, and that’s what’s easily supported in the company environment…)

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#411

Hey, I use Valhalla Vintage with Airwave bridge and it works nicely with Bitwig, modulators can control vst etc…

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#412

You’ve got to admit, this is pretty funny.

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#413

good link, this looks like it’ll keep me comfortable for a bit. I haven’t put too much thought into a setup besides a ‘nice’ interface that has two 8ch ADAT ins and outs for outboard and a expert sleepers interface that’ll be the brain of a eurorack skiff, but finding one might take a bit of time and getting the hardware first might help lol

#414

Thank you, I’ll give it a try soon! :slight_smile:

#415

For the record, I use two older generation Focusrite interfaces (18i8 2nd gen + 18i20 first gen) and they both work great with Linux. I can even change the hardware config using alsamixer. It can take a little bit of time for new hardware to get full support, but many older interfaces work quite well.

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#416

got tidalcycles working on manjaro with the help of this paper
where it says 'if you use vim-plug…
it might say ‘use vim-plug (install vim-plug!)
this installation can also work for atom tidalcycles package later
if it’s working in neovim first :slight_smile:’

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#417

I needed an intro SwiftUI project and I’ve gotten sick of always looking at another computer while setting up cron tasks (despite using cron for years, I have yet to internalize it) so I built an iOS crontab generator. It’s my first iOS app so I want to run it through Testflight for a bit before releasing it (for free). On iOS 13+ and interested in testing? Shoot me a PM.

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#418

What audio interfaces are you all using with Linux? Based on my research it sounds like no one officially supports it but anything class compliant should work.

#419

Pretty much this. The safest bet is anything that is class compliant and doesn’t require any kind of manufacturer specific control panel / mixer application for setting up routings or changing device settings (eg. is simple enough not to have configurable routing, or allows it to be done either via front panel or web interface on the device itself).

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#420

That’s pretty much right in my experience. My A+H zed-i10 and Behringer UMC 204HD both work great.

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#421

I was using a TC Electronic Impact Twin firewire soundcard for many years which worked particularity well once ALSA just started recognising it with no configuration (I did have to use the Windows software to set up the routing for an external ADAT preamp connected to the IT though). However, as it’s just keeled over at last, I’m probably going to be heading in the direction of a Focusrite 18i20 as i gather they work fine too.

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#422

For any heavy cron users, I built a simple iOS app to generate crontab expressions. It’s also my first Swift app, so open to feedback on my likely garbage code.

Thanks @fever606 for providing feedback!

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#423

just ordered a thinkpad t14 (amd) and starting my hunt for the perfect distro. moving from osx after almost 20yrs. i’ll primarily do the normal stuff with some bitwig (e.g. recording hardware with a allen heath qupac and iconnectivity mioxl for midi), vscode and the occasional steam game.

currently these are my distro picks:

  1. opensuse / tumbleweed
  2. pop_os

i’m leaning towards opensuse at the moment. also not quite sure where to begin with audio; jack(2?), pulseaudio, or pipewire?

any thoughts or tips would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

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#424

I’ve been running debian stable for ages, although I’ve tried quite a few others.

What I love about debian is

  1. it’s super stable
  2. the slow release cycle (normally about three years), can be seen as an disadvantage, but it’s great that you don’t have to worry about things changing in the middle of something. obviously you update the system along the way (I update a couple of times a week), but its just security updates and fixes…
  3. very common, meaning it’s well supported, well documented and easy to google solutions.
  4. it’s easy to setup a lean, light environment that fits you, your workflow and your computer power

Add a realtime kernel from liquorix and you’re ready to make music.

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#425

I’ve been on Void for a few years, before that I used Arch for a while. On paper they’re both tinkerer’s distros, there’s a lot of stuff you have to do manually, but Arch has a great wiki with years of knowledge in it, and I’ve never really felt lost. Rolling release sounds like trouble in theory, but in practice my experience is if don’t wait to long between running updates, all in all there’s a lot fewer issues than I’ve had e.g. moving between major Ubuntu releases. All in all my experience with these two distros has been very, very smooth and “out of my way”, where with Ubuntu (in the time that I ran it, 2009-2013ish) I remember having somewhat regular “I installed a package and apt removed my bootloader” and other catastrophic events.

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#426

@a773 @rvense
what are y’all using for audio; jack(2?), pulseaudio, or pipewire?

#427

jack when it’s serious, whatever otherwise :crazy_face:

Edit, yeah jack2! In my experience it’s just a matter of trying the various versions of jack out that’s available in the repo, sometimes one performs better than the other. That’s said i thinks they performed equally well here for years, I’m just on jack2 because it’s the new one…

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