The linux DAW thread

[mjolnir]

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[mjolnir]

ArchWiki has a good section on how to configure Linux for audio.
Later this year, I will try and post up a tutorial I am making on how to do this too.

[mjolnir]

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[farlukar]

Lots of goodies from Modular Samples!

[uOpt]

Anybody tried running Spectralayers 11 in Wine?

[mjolnir]

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[dan_flash]

I just unpacked an old desktop (been boxed up for a while after moving to a new country) -> put a second SSD in it -> installed Mint and some audio stuff -> bought Mixbus 10 and set that up.

I usually write and record on a Linux laptop and the idea now with this desktop is to track / compose / arrange / pre-mix on the laptop using Reaper (and ACMT and Airwindows plugs etc) then bounce out stems and move them to the desktop for mixing in Mixbus.

Kinda looking forward to getting stuck in with Mixbus. I've used Ardour a fair bit over the years and I learnt audio on physical desks so none of it is completely new to me but if anyone has any Mixbus tips / tricks / warnings etc then do let me know cheers

[glokraw]

Sounds like a good plan. I use AVLinux distro, and have Mixbus V6, and do mostly simple things using Reaper and plugins, audacity, and rakarrack effects, often recording the sum of the parts using the simple timemachine recording utility. Then final polish and export in audacity. Low stress, and few issues
Cheers

[dan_flash]

Well, Mixbus is good and the tape saturation sounds really nice and all that, but I seem to get much better results using my usual Reaper + ACMT and Airwindows plugins setup.

Might just be a familiarity thing (although to be fair, I've used Ardour and real-life consoles a fair bit so Mixbus doesn't feel unfamiliar at all, if you get me) but I set up my Reaper (and Renoise) projects so that every track is bussed by group just like a standard console workflow and I use saturation on busses and channels and it just seems to sound a lot better than in Mixbus, at least to my ears.

@glokraw that sounds like a nice and somewhat traditional way of working, good stuff.

[deepspeccode]

Well, Mixbus is good and the tape saturation sounds really nice and all that, but I seem to get much better results using my usual Reaper + ACMT and Airwindows plugins setup.

Might just be a familiarity thing (although to be fair, I've used Ardour and real-life consoles a fair bit so Mixbus doesn't feel unfamiliar at all, if you get me) but I set up my Reaper (and Renoise) projects so that every track is bussed by group just like a standard console workflow and I use saturation on busses and channels and it just seems to sound a lot better than in Mixbus, at least to my ears.

@glokraw that sounds like a nice and somewhat traditional way of working, good stuff.

Ill second this Reaper with Airwindows plugins is probably the closest you will get to an analog sound. Airwindows is underrated and easily my goi to plugins. Tip: use the airwindows consolidated vst, it has info of what each plugin does and you can use the browser to chose the plugin you want

[dan_flash]

Ill second this Reaper with Airwindows plugins is probably the closest you will get to an analog sound. Airwindows is underrated and easily my goi to plugins. Tip: use the airwindows consolidated vst, it has info of what each plugin does and you can use the browser to chose the plugin you want

Yeah the Airwindows Consolidated plugin is brilliant and brought to light loads of Airwindows plugs I wasn't aware of. Easily some of the best and most interesting plugins I've ever come across.

My general MO is ACMT for compression and EQ (bread and butter stuff) and Airwindows for pretty much everything else.

One thing to note - if you use Ardour instead of Reaper, you can easily take advantage of post-fader inserts to use the Airwindows Console stuff. Dunno if it's something you're into but might be worth investigating nonetheless.

[mjolnir]

can anybody please remind me of which Linux DAW optimizations configurations are essential?

I vaguely remember putting myself into the "audio" group and setting it's CPU timings and stuff. Please show me the way if you have the time. I have to look this stuff up again and it's daunting.

UPDATE: I'm finding some stuff on ArchWiki, but it's different from a few months or years ago, that's for sure. I guess I needed the review.

[brandflake11]

Hey mjolnir, what distro are you using? Some distros already have configurations in place to get good linux setups for daws. Also, depending on the distro, there might be a package that you install that configures a lot for you.

If you're looking into manually configuring your distro, I think the arch wiki has a good guide (it's specific to arch but it can help with other distros as arch can be pretty vanilla): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Profes ... figuration

I hope that helps some. The answer is really: it depends on the distro, but if you're unsure, pick a distro that gets you up and running already (AVLinux, Ubuntu Studio, kxstudio).

[mjolnir]

OMG, you're so helpful. Thanks!
And you're right, the ArchWiki is the only link that showed up in Google not about JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit). And you're right, there's some specific packages in my distro. Turns out, I need to do both things, manual and automatic. Thanks for your help.

[audiojunkie]

If you are using Fedora, I have compiled information from across the internet and put it all in one place for Fedora users. To my knowledge, it is the most complete and uptodate audio tuning documentation for Fedora. Again, none of it is my work, except gathering it all into one place.

https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=27121