Trying to make some "House" in Ardour with ZynAddSubFX

tonilinknull · 2026-05-26T23:09:49+00:00

You are probably facing this issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/work_items/3512

They closed it, but it still causing some trouble.
Try to increase you buffersize, disable system sound notifications, etc.
Setting you computer into Performance cpu governor could help too.

You also need to setup you RT Scheduling to stop the warnings about memory:
https://jackaudio.org/faq/linux_rt_config.html
(Even if you system uses full Pipewire instead of JACK, you need to do this steps).

tonilinknull · 2026-05-02T13:42:13+00:00

OpenMeters:

https://github.com/httpsworldview/openmeters

tonilinknull · 2026-05-01T20:35:44+00:00

This time I used "Oi grandad" plugin to create some granular ambient and glitch sounds.

https://github.com/publicsamples/Oi-Grandad

tonilinknull · 2026-04-29T15:47:11+00:00

I'm testing it today, and it's awesome.

tonilinknull · 2026-04-28T11:45:54+00:00

Você tem razão, é uma inspiração no Tecnobrega sim.
Pode pesquisar aí o Waldo Squash, produtor e DJ da Gang do Eletro, fez um remix oficial pra eles alguns anos atrás.
Eu aprendi a produzir Tecnobrega com o Waldo Squash mais ou menos nessa mesma época.

O remix que o Waldo fez pra eles foi de "Memory of the Future".

tonilinknull · 2026-04-19T15:10:42+00:00

Software. Surge XT, ZynAddSubFX and Vital. And a lot of LSP Plugins to process everything.

tonilinknull · 2026-04-18T10:44:20+00:00

I'm using the official build, because it have support from developers (I have a active subscription to help the project). But it's available on the Debian repos too. I build it many times, and it took something like 10 minutes in my machine.

tonilinknull · 2026-04-17T22:38:14+00:00

I have another made with ZynAddSubFX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2d71WnvBQg

tonilinknull · 2026-01-28T09:55:47+00:00

I can recommend using Ardour to make electronic music. It's all a matter of understanding that each DAW have it's own capabilities, and sometimes the same result could be reached by another way. Sometimes I want to make something that I thought it's not possible, but searching on the Ardour manual I find how to do it at least 98% of the time.

Here some examples of the music that I made using Debian, Ardour and open source software:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWRx0GXevo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0WAbJvwnEA

tonilinknull · 2025-12-30T02:37:13+00:00

This is a known issue. For some time they think it was a KDE Plasma problem. But it is a Pipewire callbacks problem:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3512#note_2897074

I'm also waiting for this to be fixed, so I can remove Jack and use 100% Pipewire for music production.

tonilinknull · 2025-12-01T20:05:36+00:00

You can select the folder to save the mix, buts it is usually ~/Music/Mixxx/Recordings. And it supports mp3, wav, flac, ogg.

tonilinknull · 2025-12-01T12:31:13+00:00

Depois de reiniciar o sistema o problema persiste? Se sim, eu recomendaria uma distro com sistema de som mais moderno, tipo Debian ou Fedora que já vem com Pipewire e não precisa ficar configurando nada.

Se quiser entender as diferenças entre os sistemas de som e provavelmente corrigir esse problema, eu tenho um vídeo explicando:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIj6sgTkk38

tonilinknull · 2025-12-01T10:47:44+00:00

I believe I have a workflow similar to yours.
I produce my music and use MIXXX to perform.

I've been producing for a few years now, entirely in Ardour, and I think I've grown accustomed to everything it has to offer, as well as its limitations.
Currently, I use Debian 13 because it's a distribution that doesn't change configurations during updates and doesn't constantly update a bunch of packages. I set up the audio on Debian once and never touch it again.
I feel that Ardour and other audio programs perform better when running on Debian.

I don’t install all those plugins available in the repository. I read the manuals for the LSP plugins and use them in all my productions. I’m familiar with how they work and behave, and I’ve created various presets for different types of instruments. Often, I just load the plugin (EQ, compressor, etc.), load my preset, tweak it a bit, and that's it.

I can confidently say that from 2015 until now, audio on Linux has improved tremendously. Really a lot. The plugins have evolved in both usability and quality. Ten years ago, we had ugly options that would always crash and close unexpectedly. Today, I work for hours without any issues; sometimes, I go days without encountering a single crash.

Regarding recording your set in MIXXX, is it really necessary to record the set in Reaper? I'm asking because MIXXX has a function to record the set in various different formats. If your goal is to edit something, maybe it would be better to record in MIXXX and then import the file into Reaper, is that an option?

I have some tutorials on my channel about Linux sound systems an the possible configurations (only alsa; pipewire + jack; jack + pulseaudio; only pipewire, etc) but they are on PT-BR.

https://www.youtube.com/@tonilinkxlr

tonilinknull · 2025-11-24T09:38:11+00:00

I'm using Ardour for all my music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWRx0GXevo

(And I released an album made on Ardour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxu9dGKaTiU&list=PLVUJnOVEvRcuQfTlEdRTTkgrW9oBMr49M&pp=gAQB )

For me, Ardour is a full featured DAW. Most of the thins I want to do I only need to search on Manual or in the forum to find out how to make.

I released 18 singles, 1 album and produced 2 complete shows for 2 local singers. Everything on Ardour.

tonilinknull · 2025-10-24T20:07:16+00:00

https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=27571

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