08-18-2022, 02:23 PM | #1 |
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Reaper kills all other audio with ALSA
Im on arch linux, running latest reaper from pacman.
im using pulseaudio, and ALSA in reaper. With the option auto suspend PA on, reaper works but no other sound does. with it off, reaper cant open ALSA |
08-18-2022, 02:26 PM | #2 | |
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Hope that helps.
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08-18-2022, 02:32 PM | #3 |
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would you recommend jack or pipewire-jack? im playing around with things to see if fully switching to linux is possible so im open to experimenting with things
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------- ¹ I'm also currently investigating Agordejo as a session manager (uses New Session Manager daemon under the hood) and will add to the guides once I'm satisfied it works as advertised.
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08-18-2022, 03:00 PM | #5 |
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ok ive managed to get all sound working with pipewire-alsa, pipewire and pipewire-jack, can now play both youtube and use reaper at once. however theres now around 100ms latency which is almost unusable, any idea what could be causing it?
also the audio settings in reaper dont give me options for buffer size etc |
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It's important to set your preferred samplerate and buffersize in the config file given pipewire defaults to 48k and 1024 "quantum" (buffer size). Whatever you pick, you can also change on the fly using the listed commands in my guide that start with pw-metadata. Without knowing your system and what it is capable of, it's hard to suggest a number but some of us run at 64 samples most of the time. If your system can't handle that try starting at 512 and moving down through 256, 128 and 64 as long as you don't get x-runs/audio dropouts. That will get you much better latency. It shouldn't matter which distro you are on as the pipewire config part is universal. BTW, which distro are you on? What audio interface? 100ms latency even at 1024 quantum sounds very high unless it was just a rough guess...
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08-18-2022, 03:15 PM | #7 |
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yep, that seemed to work, sample rate was fine so i just turned quantum down to 256 and the latency is unnoticeable now. *i use arch btw*
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08-18-2022, 03:17 PM | #8 |
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Fantastic. Glad it is working. And nice to have another Arch user here
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11-23-2023, 09:53 PM | #9 |
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hi necroing this thread because this is still an issue. No other application has a problem sharing ALSA, and I prefer to use it since it is lowest latency. But Reaper not only demands all of it's attention, it also breaks it. The only way I've found to switch back to normal audio after a Reaper session is to restart. There has got to be a reason why only Reaper does this.
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11-24-2023, 02:03 AM | #10 | |
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As for breaking audio afterwards, that definitely should not happen. I'm not sure what that's about. Back in the days of pulseaudio, if I tried to play audio in, say, a browser while REAPER had control of the soundcard, that could break the system and require me to restart pulseaudio. But that would only happen if I tried to use different applications simultaneously, so it was easy to work around. In any case, if you want people to troubleshoot your issues, you really should provide more information about your system. There's a lot of variables here.
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