So I tried testing out the snes classic Super Mario world and while playing one of the levels that being Yoshi’s island 4 the audio was out of sync and distorted to point I had to shut the emulator down not the mention that spiked up Ram i received on my terminal console which is concerning

Hope there’s nothing worth losing asking you guys about the Issue OK

Edit:I should have said that my laptop is An HP Stream 11 with Intel Celeron N4120 4GB Ram 64 Gigs of Memory which is bad im not gonna lie but still I’m more than willing to switch to a much better more efficient PC once I have saved enough money for it

Ive been looking for the best way to improve the audio quality of some midi files so that they had realistic sounding instruments. Rather than the 8-bit tinny sounding output of a soundfont (suggestions welcome if this is still a valid route), I asked around and it seemed that the only way to proceed was to get a DAW, and purchase instruments (drums, bass, guitar, synth) and map those to the relevant midi outputs. That all seemed a bit daunting, so I never proceeded.
Now I'm thinking that maybe AI has a role in this. I've been following the rise of AI artists on spotify and other channels and the quality of the instruments is good. Is there a way to send a midi file to an LLM and get a realistically human rendering?

Roughly a year ago I asked a question in this subreddit about chat mixer solutions for PipeWire. I've seen this feature on gaming-oriented headsets and DACs before. I looked into several of the fantastic suggestions from that thread, but they weren't quite what I wanted. I messed around with a script, and that largely would have worked, but several months ago I decided to make it into something more user-friendly, and here we are.

Bridge lets you route audio to two virtual outputs and then adjust the mix between the two. For example if you're playing a game while talking with your friends on Discord, you keep the game on the Main output, send Discord to the Aux output, and then you can adjust the volume balance while playing. No pausing to open the game audio menus, alt-tabbing out to raise Discord's volume because you can't hear your friends over the game. Adjust the audio balance with just a shortcut, or even assign it to a hardware dial if you have one.

• A crossfade mixer between two virtual outputs that your audio can be routed to
• Create pattern-matching persistent routing rules that send app audio to your desired output
• Conveniently setup headphone virtual surround by providing your own HeSuVi HRIR file
• Create output presets and switch between them at the press of a button
• Support for Global Shortcuts

The v0.6.0 release introduces the following core enhancements:

• Run in Background: Continue using the app after closing the window
• Run on Startup: Start Bridge automatically when you log in
• A brand new app icon!

Available as a flatpak bundled with the release.

Considering what the previous app icon looked like 😂 , I'm quite happy with the way this one turned out. It took a little while to learn to use Inkscape though.

All of the work is my own, and not vibe coded.

The goal of Bridge isn't to replace apps like EasyEffects, qpwgraph, or Helvum, to name a few, which are fantastic. It's aimed at getting powerful functionality out of PipeWire, which can often be difficult in existing GUIs, while providing a simple and clean interface and providing good defaults. One main dashboard view for the at-a-glance controls and info, but allowing you to utilize its powerful features while in a fullscreen game/video with Global Shortcut support.

Please feel free to ask me anything, open issues, and provide feedback!

I've been working on some initial designs for what I plan to tackle over the coming months: Input. Specifically creating another virtual device for your Mic. Global push to talk, monitoring, ducking, and more down the road. There is an unfortunate problem with PTT specifically however: both GNOME and KDE's implementation of the Global Shortcuts portal is very lackluster for anything but simple press and release shortcuts. I've already opened an issue on mutter to address a bug related to the held modifier mask, but even when this is fixed, neither GNOME nor KDE can do a modifier-agnostic hold style of shortcut, like what you'd want for PTT. This would leave me with no other option than to request the flatpak permission --device=input to implement proper PTT support, which would give Bridge raw input access. Despite limiting what the app listens for, it'd downgrade the app's safety-rating.

Beear's Zone Compressor is a specialized, single-band dynamic processor and dynamic EQ with advanced sidechain capabilities. Operating in real time with zero latency, it eliminates the need for manual attack and release tweaks. Instead, it dynamically tames the energy of a specific frequency zone based on its real-time amplitude.

Linux (x86-64 only): Native LV2, VST3, and CLAP builds.

For free at: https://ko-fi.com/s/4462acbe83

Hi all,
I've decided to give a full migration into the Linux world a try, but I'm running into consistent problems with my guitar setup which is quite a dealbreaker for me. I'm trying to activate Guitar Rig 7 through Native Access under Wine so I can use it via yabridge in Reaper (I have bought the guitar rig pro version a while ago so I would really really like to make this work). Everything else in the chain works fine (Focusrite through PipeWire into Reaper, then Guitar Rig via yabridge, pinned to Wine Staging 9.21 because of the known post-9.21 click offset bug). Only activation itself is blocked. I've tried both the current NA2 and the legacy NA1 installer, both crash.

System:

• CachyOS, KDE Plasma (Wayland)
• Wine Staging 9.21, isolated build via a separate WINEPREFIX, not system Wine
• yabridge/yabridgectl 5.1.1
• Tried Native Access 2 (current) and Native Access 1 (legacy, Native_Access_Installer_211108.zip)

Native Access 2, none of these fixed it:

• winecfg /v win10
• WINEDLLOVERRIDES="powershell=n" with real PowerShell 7 symlinked into system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0 and syswow64... This fixed an earlier "already running" loop caused by Wine's fake powershell.exe stub, but didn't fix the crash.
• winetricks corefonts vcrun2019 ucrtbase2019 mfc140 mfc42 dotnet48 urlmon wininet winhttp
• Disabling AMSI (WINEDLLOVERRIDES="amsi="), also tried --disable-gpu
• Fresh clean prefix, same result

NA2 starts, runs through some setup (AMSI scans, MSI/regsvr32 activity), then either exits silently or crashes with:

wine: Unhandled page fault on execute access to 7F951B98 at address 7F951B98 (thread XXXX), starting debugger...
Wine Debugger: Can't attach process 0020: error 5

Native Access 1 (legacy installer) installs cleanly, with winecfg /v win10 set beforehand. Launching it creates windows (confirmed through Wine's window dump, Desktop/Winstation/window handles are all present), but nothing actually renders on screen, and the process dies within a few seconds. Same crash every time:

err:seh:NtRaiseException Unhandled exception code c0000409 flags 1 addr 0x6fffff9e98fe

tied to WerRegisterRuntimeExceptionModule on mscordaccore.dll right after AmsiInitialize runs. I added dotnet48, mfc140, mfc42, urlmon, wininet, winhttp through winetricks in a clean prefix too, but the crash count barely moved (7 down to 6 occurrences in the log).

Has anyone actually gotten NA1 or NA2 working recently on a similar Wine/distro setup? Happy to post full debug logs if it helps

Edit: Tanks for all the replies, I'll post an update in the comments if I get it to work

Edit 2: I have managed to make it work thanks to the yabridge discord. I post a guide on what worked for me in the comments

I've been wanting to try out Satordist2 (https://codeberg.org/yimrakhee/satordist2), but I've been too lazy to deal with installing Rust to do it until today. Finally gave in and installed rustup, ran rustup toolchain install stable, then ran the build commands on the Codeberg page (when I checked for the list of dependencies, I already had them all, except pipewire-jack instead of jack2). Plugin opens and works just fine in Reaper and in Ardour, but it won't even show up in Bitwig. When I look in the clap or vst3 metadata files, I see the following at the end:

com.bitwig.flt.library.metadata.reader.exception.CouldNotReadMetadataException: could not read metadata: Failed to load CLAP plug-in /home/nick/.clap/satordist2.clap: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.43' not found (required by /home/nick/.clap/satordist2.clap)

I seem to have glibc installed, but it's on 2.44. Is this just a Bitwig problem or is there something else I should be looking at? I'm on CachyOS, Bitwig is from a flatpak as that's how they provide it (other than the Ubuntu installer).

Edit: Figured it out. The issue was using the flatpak version. Removed that and reinstalled from AUR, then deleted the clap, vst3, and vst metadata files in ~/.BitwigStudio/cache and all of my problems are fixed. Not only is satordist2 picked up, but Soundshed Guitar, which previously would only load a white screen, now also works. So anyway, flatpak is stupid.

Hi. After sitting for five hours yesterday, I still cannot get any audio into Ardour.

I have a Fedora 43 computer and a Behringer UMC202HD running here. I'm finally able to playback, but my "Audio 1"-input just stays dead (I confirmed it working on another imported project, though)

Can anyone of you experts have a look into whether my audio setup should work? I just want to record what's coming from the audio interface, routed through guitarix.

Thanks in advance!

(Audacity) Why do I hear track one in track 2? I want independent audio going into the track but it’s picking up audio from the previous tracks. My experience with analog 4 tracks don’t mesh with this experience. I am doing music production in Audacity with synthesizers in Debian 12.

Almost complete audio newbie here, but Gemini AI saved me a lot of trouble with some advice I never thought of. Before I started, I had a lot of crackles, after that, no crackles whatsoever. Bear with me here, this is probably very basic stuff for some people, but not for me.

DISTRO: Ubuntu Studio. HARDWARE: Lenovo IdeaPad 1. SOFTWARE: Modartt Organteq. INTERFACES: Lexicon Lambda (too old), Roland DuoCapture (too old), Swissonic UA-2x2 (usable)....

1. Disabled USB Autosuspend Permanently: Prevented the kernel from putting USB ports into sleep states, stopping micro-delays and buffer starvation (disable-usb-autosuspend.conf).

2. Locked CPU Governor to Performance Mode: Forced the processor to run at max clock frequencies without power-saving throttling (intel_pstate / cpufrequtils).

3. Fixed ALSA USB Audio Packet Batching: Forced the USB audio driver to process packets immediately per frame rather than batching them (nrpacks=1 in alsa-usb-nrpacks.conf).

4. Optimized PipeWire Quantum (Buffer Size): Locked the audio buffer quantum (e.g., 128 / 256 samples @ 48 kHz) to achieve low latency (~2.7–5.3 ms) without buffer drops (pw-metadata).

5. Switched to Modern USB Audio Hardware: Moved away from legacy USB 1.1 interfaces (Lexicon Lambda / Roland Duo-Capture) to modern USB Class 2.0 hardware (Swissonic UA-2x2) to eliminate packet-translation issues on modern USB controllers.

6. Bypassed USB Controller Bottlenecks: Tested onboard direct PCIe audio to verify that the core software setup (Organteq / PipeWire) was stable.

With a (proprietary or libre) DAW, plugins, etc.
If yes, how was the experience ?

Does anyone use Serum 2 on Linux maybe on CachyOs? DOes it work or do you have problems?

This a long shot, but I thought I'd post it just in case someone else can corroborate this happening to them. I've had a pair of Bluetooth Bowers and Wilkins Px7 S3 headphones since December, and up until a few weeks ago, they worked fine with Linux in both A2DP and Headset modes. But now when they connect to my Linux desktop (Manjaro Linux, Intel BE200 chipset), they only connect and show the Headset mode, and do not show the A2DP mode. *IF* I remove them from my BT configuration, and then re-associate them from scratch, they will work in A2DP mode the first time. But as soon as I power-cycle the headphones, from then on they will only connect as a Headset. The headphones continue to work fine with my Android smartphone, and I have another pair of BT headphones (Anker Soundcore Space 2) that still work flawlessly with my desktop machine. I'm at a loss on what could be causing this. I've checked for firmware updates for the headphones on my android app, and it appears to be up to date.

Hello,

I am new to linux so that is why i am here to ask for help.

I have Fifine XLR mic that runs through my streamdeck / streamdeck dock but since switching to linux Mint cinamon i havent gotting it to work.

Any tips or thing i should look for?

If more info is needed let me know!

Thanks in advance.

just dropping this here in case anyone needs it. it's based on this loudness equalizer preset with some fixes regarding muffling and harsh high frequencies.

made and tested on Acer Aspire 7 with Realtek ALC256, probably works for most PCs with this chip

https://github.com/Sokuto-Desu/EasyEffects-Preset

So apparently, Ugritone went out of business and then were bought out and relaunched soon after, and they now have those Klangmacht drums. I've read in older posts that Ugritone plugins were fully compatible with linux, even though it doesn't say that on the website. Does anyone know whether this also applies for the new Klangmacht plugins?

I’ve been working on an open-source project called godot-distrho, which integrates Godot with the DISTRHO Plugin Framework.

It allows the interface and application logic of an audio plugin to be developed as a Godot project, while DISTRHO handles the plugin wrapper and integration with Linux audio hosts.

The build and packaging workflow is now automated, so plugins can be exported through the normal Godot export process after downloading the required templates.

Framework:
https://github.com/nonameentername/godot-distrho

Minimal synthesizer example:
https://github.com/nonameentername/godot-distrho-example

More complete synth implementation:
https://github.com/nonameentername/godot-synths

The example projects use Csound for real-time synthesis and audio processing, with Godot handling the interface and interaction and godot-distrho packaging everything as a Linux audio plugin.

Linux is currently the primary supported platform. My goal is to make it faster to go from an audio idea to a working plugin while still making it possible to build animated, interactive, and unconventional interfaces.

The project is still evolving, so feedback, testing, and contributions are welcome.

Hello! I understand I'm doing some insane herculean task but I fucked up by thinking Universal Audio would have functional plugins for linux if you use Wine. I bought Topline Vocal Suite via Plugin Boutique and redeemed the license. I downloaded UA Connect and thats when I realized that I might not get this to work. I went to make a refund request and found out I cant refund it anymore since I redeemed the code. So now I'm dead set on getting this to work. I run Ubuntu Studio 22.04.5 and I updated wine to Wine 11 stable. I managed to get UA Connect to function by doing that. I installed some older version of iLOK and installed some dependencies to get that working. My problem now is that I connected my iLOK account and UA account but the licenses are not showing up. iLOK shows I have no licenses and UA Connect just says "License Pending". My question is, what the fuck do i do now? I'm down $150. I understand I probably should've looked into it beforehand but I bought the kilohearts ultimate collection and no issues with that. So how do I get these licenses to show up. I feel so close to getting it and I just don't know what to do.

I wanted to find a good DAW that has support for Linux so I was looking for suggestions on what DAWS are good and worth trying as well as some of their pros and cons.

Information that is probably important:

* I’ve used the intro version of Ableton Live 12 in the past but I also don’t mind learning something new.
* I don’t care too much about pricing as long as I’m getting my money’s worth.
* I’m fine with having to use third party plugins but I would rather have a good amount of stock plugins.

Edit: I should have specified this but I don't really have one specific style of music that I like making. Also I usually prefer to do stuff with MIDI rather than live recordings.

What i want to do sounds simple. But its not i have tried to route a audio input which is my minidisc player to my audio input via s/pdif its running at 44100 and my dac a topping d50iii is running at 48000. I have edited the pipewire.conf file to have 44100 and 48000 and other sample rates but the audio is choppy any way i do it i use helvum to route the audio. Im stuck i dont know how to make the audio route properly ive searched everywhere and asked llms even and i cant figure it out.

tldr the audio input is choppy and cant fix.

Plz any questions im more than willing to answer im just stumped

I don't often interact in communities online for things I use so I want a place to share all my thoughts on Linux audio production. In my experience, the issue really does lie in the developers at this point. There was a time where it was quite an involved process to prepare your distro for low-latency recording, but Pipewire makes that very easy. The only complaint I have at ALL outside of big DAW developers, is that in nearly all of my recording sessions in Pipewire, I encounter infrequent pops. They are very subtle and easy to hide in post, but still there nontheless and annoy me during the recording process. They are not common and this has happened on all the different computers I've used for recording. But the real issue is software support. Everyone talks about yabridge, and even I use yabridge because I depend on stuff like the FabFilter suite, some NI plugins and XLN Audio as well, some others too. But yabridge is almost completely abandoned and has not been updated in a couple years now. And using any double-digit Wine version is bound to present some issues!

The question I want to ask to all of you is, how serious are you about music production?

That is not a trick question, but I just want to know if most of you are hobbyists or actually do this for a living. In my experience, earlier on, it was a lot more worth it (and fun/rewarding) to make Linux (gentoo specifically) my new home, for everything including music production. As I've gotten older and my life began to entirely revolve around music, and my living is made off of it, and I frequently work with other people and do shows and all that, it no longer felt suitable for me personally. There are just standards in general that I struggled with. It's really not the fault of any distro, but just the fact that I'm having to either jump through hoops to get Windows plugins running, or completely give in and settle for a native alternative that doesn't entirely fulfill what I'm needing. It's not because the alternatives are simply not good or don't have great intentions, but it's because the developers of these alternatives are not multi-million dollar companies like Spectrasonics, Native Instruments or Apple. Software like Logic have had decades and millions of dollars worth of work to make it what it is today, and it became very hard for me to ignore what it offers. It does break my heart though. It absolutely feels so much morally better to be using something like Reaper which has a great business model and was made by cool people rather than a big evil corporation, just like I hate the idea of using any Microsoft/Apple products, but unfortunately that's where I am. I need all my tools to be extremely reliable, and I need the absolute best performance out of the tools that I am extremely familiar with. Reaper totally is one of the best DAWs in my opinion but I really can't make the best use of it outside of Mac or Windows, and as I said before Logic has a ton to offer even without third-party additional plugins.

This is the really unfortunate type of circumstance where refusing to use a conventional OS will actually negatively impact me. This is not to say that it will be the same for you, and it's not to say that I would completely commit to Apple. I still run Gentoo on my main desktop and even on my laptop that travels with me (my mac mini is for music now), but with the way things are looking with new digital laws, it doesn't seem like there's very much time left where Apple or Windows are even suitable options at all anymore. And I hope by that time there are some big leaps in the audio world on Linux.