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criddell • today at 2:07 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Are Linux audio drivers good enough? At one point they were not reliable enough from a timing perspective but I have no idea if that's been fixed or not.


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lewispollard • today at 2:22 PM

Depends what you mean by audio drivers, if you mean the audio server, Jack has always been good for pro audio, and pipewire (the modern default) can be configured to be good too with the right packages. In terms of timing (latency you mean?) I have zero complaints using Jack via pipewire on a proper audio interface.

If you mean device drivers, it can be a bit hit or miss, generally stuff works but for example I have an SSL audio interface and while the audio works, it's missing a lot of the configuration options that the Windows drivers give you around customisable audio routing.

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ivanjermakov • today at 2:30 PM

pipewire-jack adapter is good enough for me to use PC as a guitar pedal with guitarix and maudio sound interface.

You might need to tweak kernel settings for better latency https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Professional_audio#Optimizi...