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Pulseaudio has gotten a really bad rep, and I think there was at time where it was legitimately awful, but I think it's better than it was. On mainstream distr

by BFay 11y ago

Pulseaudio has gotten a really bad rep, and I think there was at time where it was legitimately awful, but I think it's better than it was. On mainstream distros with pulseaudio like Fedora or Ubuntu, audio just works, when you don't have low-latency requirements. When you do have low-latency requirements, things are a bit tricky. You do pretty much need to get a low-latency or realtime kernel, and you definitely want to use Jack or ALSA. Maybe this setup is a little more frustrating than Windows, where you may just need to install one driver like ASIO4ALL. But it's flexible, and you can actually get Pulseaudio and Jack working pretty well together after installing the pulseaudio-module-jack. You can turn on jack when you need it, turn it off when you don't, and all of the pulseaudio stuff will get routed through it so that you don't lose sound from your other applications. If you want, you can route audio from pulseaudio into whatever other audio applications you're using - sometimes I like taking Youtube videos and routing the audio through weird effects in Pure Data. I toggle jack on and off with this little script, works pretty well for me right now: https://gist.github.com/YottaSecond/f0a1b515f95b2e791755 https://gist.github.com/YottaSecond/f0a1b515f95b2e791755

aidenn0 11y ago
Ubuntu is the reason PA got a bad rap, and PA is an example of why I don't use Ubuntu. When Ubuntu adopted PA, the readme file still described it as "the sound server that breaks your audio" It was the most mature thing that had the features that Ubuntu wanted, so they adopted it despite the fact that it was clearly not yet ready for prime-time. That all being said, PA is not the choice if you want to do DAW style stuff; it tends to prefer lower cpu utilization to lower-latency.

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Pulseaudio has gotten a really bad rep, and I think there was at time where it was legitimately awful, but I think it's better than it was. On mainstream distr

by BFay 11y ago

aidenn0 11y ago
Ubuntu is the reason PA got a bad rap, and PA is an example of why I don't use Ubuntu. When Ubuntu adopted PA, the readme file still described it as "the sound server that breaks your audio" It was the most mature thing that had the features that Ubuntu wanted, so they adopted it despite the fact that it was clearly not yet ready for prime-time. That all being said, PA is not the choice if you want to do DAW style stuff; it tends to prefer lower cpu utilization to lower-latency.