pipewire VS ardour

PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:

> PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph-based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK.

https://pipewire.org/

Red Hat seems to be putting a lot more work into desktop Linux lately. They added extended lifecycle options to RHEL Workstation with RHEL 9, they've been doing a bunch of work on desktop Linux technologies (PipeWire, libcamera, HDR displays, etc.), and they've recently worked with AWS to launch a virtual desktop option in the cloud.

Their website had the link to the project page on GitLab.

Noob question here. I'm a huge fan of pipewire and the work that has been put into to make coherent and universal audio infrastructure for Linux.

I'm the lead author of Ardour [0], and I'd very much like to hear more about your frustrations, since over the next 1-2 years, paying attention to non-European musical culture is one of the things I hope to focus on during development. You can reach me via the email address in my profile, or maybe use our forums at discourse.ardour.org. Thanks.

[0] https://ardour.org/ <= a cross-platform open source DAW that has been around for more than 23 years

If you don't care about exotica like async or signal safety, and just need to see the callstack from arbitray points, this can do the job without C++23:

https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/libs/pbd/stackt...

(2 different implementations, one for POSIX-y systems with the execinfo.h header, and one for Windows)

The demange() function is elsewhere.

If you installed a Sfizz lv2 plugin you need an lv2 host to execute Sfizz. Ardour https://ardour.org/ and Carla are https://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla are lv2 plugin hosts.

Music and sound provide depth and development to science fiction worlds. Open source music production software like Ardour and LMMS provide aspiring composers and sound designers with professional-grade tools to create atmospheric and futuristic soundscapes. The TV show The Expanse uses open source soundscaping tools to create realistic soundscapes of space travel. The soundscape helps to immerse the viewer in the world of the show, and it helps to make the space battles feel more real.

Ardour (http://ardour.org/) is probably the most fleshed out one, but it's still pretty bad compared to popular commercial options.

There are open source apps that are paid , for example Ardour you can compile it yourself but you need to pay for binaries and support.

> You probably haven't done any native UI

Hah. https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/tree/master/gtk2_ardour ... c'est moi

Anyway, that's not really the point I was making. Native UI can be thought of and used as a DOM model, but that's not inherent to the process unless you're literally writing traditional database+presentation+edit applications.

I was more poking light-hearted fun at the explosion in terminology and concepts exposed to someone doing web-based "frontend" development, and how little most of this has to do with HTML, CSS and the general classical model of "a browser".