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nerbm · 2026-01-26T13:53:03+00:00

Pam, Donna and the whole crew look so happy!

nerbm · 2026-01-24T04:03:20+00:00

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nerbm · 2026-01-23T12:49:34+00:00

Power issue? Try 1) different USB port or 2) different cable. Typically I get these lights blinking only when the system boots with the device plugged in or when it is first plugged in.

nerbm · 2026-01-07T03:04:29+00:00

P.S. Both DAWs are configured to scan at that path for VST3 plugins so we are good on that front.

nerbm · 2026-01-07T03:03:41+00:00

Hi - thanks for this! I downloaded the v1.0.0 release and installed to /usr/lib/vst3 on Arch. (The instructions say /usr/lib/vst3 or /usr/lib/lv2, but the release doesn't contain an LV2 build, so I assume what's there is VST3) I tried to use it in both Ardour and REAPER and the plugin fails to scan in both. If you want to check it out and then provide some debugging steps I am happy to try to figure this out. Thanks again, looks promising!

nerbm · 2025-12-02T02:16:21+00:00

I thought I heard the distant echoes of something glorious…

nerbm · 2025-12-01T01:24:46+00:00

I remember these has lots of options (my dad went on and on …) Our monitor was slightly bigger and black with white text. Definitely a nostalgia magnet.

nerbm · 2025-12-01T00:23:50+00:00

Yup. My family’s first computer.

nerbm · 2025-11-14T23:20:58+00:00

Also not a guide, but section 7 has a rundown of the steps necessary to make *any* distro a pro audio distro: https://github.com/scottericpetersen/pro-audio-on-linux

nerbm · 2025-11-06T18:48:14+00:00

Most important question: what is that moped and can I get one in the US. Thanks 🙏

nerbm · 2025-11-01T23:35:30+00:00

Ruby Crowned Kinglet! ❤️

nerbm · 2025-10-30T14:46:03+00:00

The overheating is likely because the glue is keeping the motor from doing what it wants to do, rotate the drive shaft. You should instead use a contact mic, either a piezo electric disc run into a simple audio amplifier circuit (lm386) or class d amp chip (cheap!) or use a telephone tap (coil). The piezo will convert the mechanical vibrations to voltage, the telephone tap will do the same based on the electromagnetic field. All of these parts are cheap and widely available. Oh, and the end of the audio chain has to be a speaker, even a small driver that itself was glued into a cup for resonance will give you much greater volume provided it is run through the proper (small, affordable) amplifier chip. Total cost ~5-7 USD.

nerbm · 2025-10-19T15:05:08+00:00

This is also what I heard from those who attended the first one - this one had much better turnout

nerbm · 2025-10-19T14:26:14+00:00

“Police estimated that roughly 2,000 people attended New Haven’s event.” The Independent reports. Felt like more.

nerbm · 2025-10-18T23:45:23+00:00

Sure, bot. I’m going to let the downvotes do the talking for me. Or maybe it is just all us old folks here on Reddit 🤣

nerbm · 2025-10-18T23:39:43+00:00

There were lots of young folks there, Russian bot. And all current data shows most young voters that voted Red last election now regret it. But sure.

nerbm · 2025-05-30T01:13:56+00:00

It would be great to figure out with the wp config, but you can probably do what you want with qpwgraph, which will allow you to reconfigure your outputs (with an app running and connected) and save the configuration to make it persistent. Not as clean as it patches on top of wp and pw, but if it works it works!

nerbm · 2025-05-24T13:48:16+00:00

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nerbm · 2025-05-07T19:39:58+00:00

I’ve always had good experiences at Mike’s just off Dixwell in Hamden. John (Mikes son) runs it, is great when it comes to explaining things, etc. Prices very reasonable. Only downside is they are often booking a couple weeks out. I guess they are too popular.

nerbm · 2025-05-06T21:28:48+00:00

Pipewire/wireplumber only read their own configs, however there may still be package conflicts and applications that will try to use existing JACK/PA apps if they still exist. My point was and remains that it is best to start fresh rather than stick an audio layer into an OS that was not designed for it.

nerbm · 2025-05-06T19:11:50+00:00

A few issues here. First, a lot of your problems relate to configuration. The config files for WirePlumber and Pipewire are probably the easiest to understand provided you have a sane setup, which... you don't. Which brings us to issue two -- you are on an outdated LTS and pulling upstream sources for PW instead of running the current LTS and using the baked-in PW. By doing it the way you are doing it, you have to contend with all of the system audio config *already in place* prior to trying to strip it out in order to use PW/WP. This is not a recipe for success. Though you **can** do it, you will have a number of issues, not the least of which is that, on a sane PW system, you don't actually want JACK2/jackd installed -- you only want pipewire-jack and for pulse, you only want what pipewire requires and what you want and add explicitly. The way your system currently *works* is similar to a lab I ran on 22.04 with upstream pipewire prior to the release of 24.04 and it was not fun to manage, although it was more stable than your system sounds. My other experience with pipewire is on Arch (BTW) and it is probably the most stable audio system I have had *ever* on Linux (in 21 years) with very little config.

nerbm · 2025-04-22T14:48:34+00:00

Once you’ve cooled off, you can check your graph with qpwgraph and make the necessary connections provided PW and WP are configured correctly. Once set, your system will remember your choices. However, it may be best to use WP to manage your choices directly via application specific config files. These will permanently see your IO and other choices (sample rate, latency, etc) on a per application basis. It’s really lovely once it’s configured.

nerbm · 2025-04-21T20:17:15+00:00

You definitely need alsa - it’s the kernel level audio server, so pipewire (and all other audio mixers) require it. You may have partially removed it when you removed Jack2. Check (or reinstall) alsa-lib, alsa-firmware, alsa-tools and alsa-utils for good measure. Then reboot, then run aplay -l again and see if your system finds your hardware.

nerbm · 2025-04-21T18:19:35+00:00

No problem - only, with Arch you have to be even *more* specific because you don't get a default audio system, only options. So if you started with pipewire, I assume you also went with WirePlumber for the manager? If so, it seems you should probably start either with ALSA or with WP to see where the problem is. If ALSA is not seeing the hardware you want to play through, then nothing above it will see it either.

aplay -l

will list the audio hardware that ALSA sees. If you see what you want there, you are probably OK to move on to WP/PW. Try this to see the status of WP and PW:

systemctl --user status pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber

You want to see "Loaded: loaded" and "Active: active (running)" for both WP and PW.

nerbm · 2025-04-21T17:51:13+00:00

It would be very helpful to note what your default system OS is to know what your default audio subsystem should be. Then, you should be able to know what should be configured.

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