I think its quite appropriate to be discussing these projects, given that:
a) they are AMAZING (Zynthian is truly an extraordinary project - as is MOD, which is included in the zynthian distro incidentally) and,
b) these projects are available for you to put on your own hardware .. which is an ideology which runs counter to almost every other hardware manufacturer today, operating in the synth business ..
It should be noted, also, that this open attitude and sharing/caring is what good musicians do. Music is one of those realms where the maxim 'information wants to be free' is true, with every single note.
I know, which is why I said "mod-host, what the MOD and Zynthian devices use" ;)
The guitarix-foot-remote project is awesome, it's only part of the package and not really got the same scale of use with the customer/developer feedback loop that the first poster (and I) wanted to focus upon. Development seems to be stalled, so I'd rather direct folk to more active projects.
The Zynthian has co-ordinated a stack with UI etc, and artists use it, and they give feedback, and MOD/falktx wrote part of that stack and I think MOD has a larger market share, so IMHO I think it's a better example about that kind of customer/developer relationship.
> Does it survive contact with reality in KSA (and other locations that don't share western liberties)? What is the internal messaging to employees of multinationals investing so much in DEI when they work in (or travel to) KSA?
Was that not enough information to tell, at very least, that KSA refers to a location?
I didn't get to try it under PipeWire on my Arch laptop before that died the other day, but a friend had said PulseEffects is no longer such a massive CPU hog under PipeWire, so much so that they run it all the time now.
Interesting. I have PulseEffects running all of the time on PulseAudio and don't notice much CPU usage. However maybe that is because I only apply effects to the mic and it seems to disable itself when nothing is recording.
Using JACK apps to route between PulseAudio apps under PipeWire is magic, as is being able to turn on external DACs after login and still be able to use them with JACK apps without restarting any software. Also PulseAudio not randomly switching to the wrong sample rate when I open pavucontrol is a blessing. (And it's so easy to setup, at least on Arch Linux.).
I have come to describe PW as like a superset of JACK and PulseAudio.
Also to note, #pipewire is very active on freenode, and wtay regularly drops into #lad.
I've first read about PipeWire about two months ago and I'd really love to try it. But! My setup is working and I'm really not the kind of person who likes to unnecessarily tamper with a smoothly running system. So I'll probably try it the next time I need to do a fresh install. Promise!
