For those, like myself, who don’t know:
PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph-based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK. PipeWire was designed with a powerful security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy, with support for Flatpak applications being the primary goal.
Unless we’re talking about the AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller and supporting surround 5.1 and above. Going through this headache for years, under Debian. Front Left/Rear Left play audio through just the Front Left speaker, and the same goes for the Right channels. I am not so happy with my PipeWire experience.
Pipewire is goat, I got better audio support on Linux with Pipewire than Windows on a gaming laptop no less
I hate the Linux Frankenstein audio stack sooooo much
Pipewire is sick, I love it.
pipewire + Carla + LSP = easy, powerful DSP for both your inputs and outputs. Just a multiband compressor and parametric EQ do wonders for headphones and speakers
Raysession is better than Carla, it’ll automatically content the connections for you.
Thanks for the tip, I didn’t know of it, but if I’m not mistaken it doesn’t load LV2/VST3 natively? If I have my Carla session open it shows the plugins, but I can’t open their UIs, and I don’t see a way to add them if it’s not loaded. Plus it’s a JACK client, not Pipewire from what I can tell. So neat tool but not a 1:1 replacement :) I also don’t think automatic connections would work for me as some of my patches have sidechains.
My biggest gripe with Carla was indeed that it holds the internal connections between plugins but doesn’t autoconnect applications, so whenever you change patches or pause your streaming client for more than 15s you need to tell it to connect again. So my current setup is one big “master patch” with several chains inside, that end in a 4-channel A/B switcher I use to change between the headphone and speaker chains for example, plus a simple bash script that loops forever (sleeping if everything is ok) and does some
pw-linkcalls. It ended up being a lot less janky than I was expecting tbh :D (happy to share if anyone is interested)Pipewire can use vsts natively.
I use an RNN noise plugin for background noise removal, it’s just a pipewire device that you can connect other sources through (using graphical wireplumber interfaces) or hard code specific inputs/outputs in the config.
It’s probably a lot easier to use them in an application, but if you only need a few then this is a way to handle it without needing additional software.
Packet loss concealment sounds hilarious without context :D
What’s even the point of TCP? Just use UDP with PLC!
