ArmCord VS Carla

I am using Armcord. It works with Wayland, although I have not streamed myself on Discord (don't know if the sound problem persists).

Armcord (utilise Cumcord comme base)

ArmCord is also similar but has mods built-in

You should check out ArmCord, it's a FOSS standalone client for discord that uses the web version, but it has better integration, as well as client mods if you want that.

Use ArmCord instead

I want to improve my privacy and now discord is a big border in front of me. I cant switch to matrix because my friends wont but i found some alternative clients which are blocking trackers and just using Electron like the original discord client. Do you know other good alternatives and why is yours the best? I found "ArmCord" and "discord-sandboxed". My question is can i trust them? Which one is better? Do you know more?

Sadly no, but its more privacy respecting than the regular client for sure. FOSS options include: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4 https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon https://github.com/terminal-discord/weechat-discord (weechat plugin to use Discord within weechat) https://github.com/evelyneee/accord (seems to be for M1 macs) https://github.com/ArmCord/ArmCord (seems to support AMD64, not just Arm64) https://github.com/khlam/discord-sandboxed (sandboxing for standard discord client) There are others I'm sure. One easier option is to run the Discord code in a newer version of Electron. This still isn't open source, but it provides better security and performance. Arch users can use the AUR package discord_arch_electron, other users can just follow the commands in the PKGBUILD for said package and figure it out. Hope that helps. Keep in mind even if your client is open source, Discord's servers aren't, and while there will be some mitigation of data collected, it'll still be quite a bit.

For discord there are some apps like ArmCord though I haven't had much luck getting it to work on postmarketOS (musl seems to have issues running electron apps right now).

I recently found ArmCord but haven't gotten it working yet. I may spend some more time on this soon.

Is this the Carla software you are talking about?

Sure.

Carla: https://github.com/falkTX/Carla

It lets me install any normal audio pro audio plugins, for example https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise

It also does some cable management, but qpwgraph is maybe better for that.

I looked at your code and the approach (IMO) is kind of bad.

If you want to solve the problem of "voice changer", you can skip the UI entirely and just use plugin parameters. You can also skip the problem of managing the connections. And when you publish your work, every pro audio software (Ableton, Reaper, whatever) can use your audio processing.

Hope that helps.

If you're looking for a realtime VST Host, I use Carla with the JACK Audio Connection Kit for low-latency EQ and other FX which are realtime on my Microphone, which then get redirected to a virtual microphone (all on Linux, should still be possible on Windows). So far that worked greatly.

You may also, if you haven't already, look into Carla as a plugin host. Carla supports midi and osc for control.

If you're using pipewire, easyeffects is probably the simplest road to take. A plugin host/patch bay like Carla is a bit more complicated but offers more flexibility.

here's a FOSS plugin https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice you can use it with Carla https://github.com/falkTX/Carla

Carla is a standalone one.

Yeah, an old version of jack2 gets you that behaviour. See https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/issues/1274 and https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/issues/1268 for related discussions.

I was reading this on git : https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/issues/828 And found out the I only thing I need is carla-git installed to have this option . Now I have installed it , reboot my system, update and upgrade but there is still no "add jack application" option available. Is carla-git part of carla or is it different ? I'm not sure how to enble it probably? thanks for any answer .

Carla