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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Choices when trying to get reaper or ardour to work:

  • Massive latency, unusable
  • All other audio stops working
  • No audio at all
  • Have audio but now midi devices don't work
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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Maybe I'm missing something obvious but how often is midi used in modern days?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Extremely frequently. Digital musical instruments generally don't output production quality sounds -- they output MIDI data that describes what note is being played, and an audio synthesizer device or software interprets it and generates the audio data.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right. I guess I consider that a relatively niche usecase. But on second thought I suppose it's not that niche once you include hobbyist musicians and that kind of crowd.

    I wanted to make the analogy of every tech YouTuber reviewing a laptop or non-high-end PC saying "you're not going to be rendering long videos on this thing" as if that's a relatable use case. No, YouTuber, that's not something most people do on their computers! Most people probably never do it in their life, or only a handful of times ever.

    But as I said upon more thought I realize that's not the case with midi.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel like I got pretty lucky with my bitwig setup (on arch)? I selected PipeWire as the output driver and everything just works (no latency, midi is fine, other apps can still be heard). the only caveat is I have to fiddle a bit if I want the audio to be sent over screen sharing apps, which I think introduces a decent amount of latency. Maybe bitwig has invested in some tech the other DAWs don't have since it's commercial software and Linux support is one of their competitive advantages...

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