Hi Erich,
Thanks for that great description of where we are at!
I don't really want to remove ubuntu-desktop because if I forget to
reinstall it before I upgrade to 23.10 (Gnome) I could end up with some
sort of Frankenstein installation.
The machine mainly does emails, web browsing and chromecastng these
days, so I don't need a pro-audio set up on it as such. I will probably
stick with pipewire on this machine and see where it takes me.
On 7/9/23 20:53, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
Hi Ross,
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However, as I read the PipeWire release notes, it might be unnecessary
to use PulseAudio altogether and we might be able to deprecate it as
well. Ubuntu 23.04 contains PipeWire 0.3.65. PipeWire 0.3.71 was
released on 17 May and contains the following notable highlight:
* A new zero-latency jackdbus bridge was added. This works similar
to what PulseAudio has to offer and creates a sink/source when
jackdbus is started. It is however much more efficient and runs
the complete PipeWire graph as a synchronous JACK client with no
added latency.
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Then, a week ago, PipeWire 0.3.72 was released with this notable highlights:
* A new module-netjack2-driver and module-netjack2-manager were
added that are compatible with NETJACK2. This allows PipeWire to
become a NETJACK2 manager or a driver between JACK2 or PipeWire
servers.
* Support was added for firewire devices with FFADO. This is
untested for now and MIDI is not implemented yet.
I see pipewire 0.3.73 is now in Mantic!
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The Gnome Settings under the Sound section allow you to choose inputs
and outputs, and adjust volumes in a similar way that you could in
pavucontrol - which is good.
qpwgraph is a QT GUI interface to wireplumber which is in Lunar.
Unfortunately the GTK equivalent (Helvum) is not yet packaged for
Debian. I will have a go with qpwgraph and see where it gets me.
I need to find some money and time to build a new Ubuntu Studio test
machine. I have a spare USB audio interface now. Then I could try and
help out with some more potentially destructive testing on Mantic.
Cheers,
Ross
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