Loopbase VS zrythm

For my fourth issue I wanted to find something a bit more challenging, so as I was searching around I came across a cool WIP application being created by one developer. She was creating a desktop client for Looperman, which is a cool website that houses a pro audio community that shares music loops, acapellas, vocals, beats, and much more. It is like the opensource equivalent for audio, where you can share your work and get feedback/help from others, or help others as well. This app is still in its early stages of development so I was able to contribute by adding a new volume slider feature. The issue was that whenever the user would preview audio clips it would only be able to play at 100% volume, so for user experience she wanted a volume slider to be added. This was a fun issue to work out as I have never worked with audio files in javascript, so it was a great learning experience.

Zrythm is

I just tested Ubuntu 22.10+PipeWire+Zrythm and I get the exact same result. I have to run /usr/bin/pw-jack /opt/zrythm-1.0.0.beta.3.10.1/bin/zrythm_launch unless I install Zrythm from Flatpak as Flatpak seems to already embed pw-jack.

Free and opensource DAWs: Ardour is the "standard" traditional DAW, but I recommend checking out Zrythm or Qtractor as you might prefer their workflows.

we keep a fork there if you prefer to use github (https://github.com/zrythm/zrythm) but we don't actually use github for development

if you really want to use github pull requests instead of sending patches feel free to do that and I'll still look at them but we recommend patches via email because it's an open and standard system

Zrythm looks promising, though I'm not an audio guy, myself.

alias zrbuild=”startdir=$PWD ; mkdir binary ; git clone https://github.com/zrythm/zrythm.git ; cd zrythm ; meson build -Dprefix=$startdir/binary/ ; meson compile -C build ; meson install -C build”