Life was simpler when everything your computer did was text-based. It is easy enough to shove data into one end of a pipe and take it out of the other. Sure, if the pipe extends across the network, ...

Linux audio has a reputation for being confusing at best and downright broken at worst. Between PulseAudio, ALSA, and JACK, the experience has often depended on trial and error, along with a lot of ...

As a sound server for Linux, Pipewire 1.4 addresses music production requirements with an extended JACK API and MIDI 2 and contains new codecs. The new version of the ...

At last we reach the final installment of this series, the question & answer stage in which we'll consider some of the common problems encountered with audio and MIDI on Linux, along with some common ...

Exploring the current state of musical Linux with interviews of developers of popular packages. Linux is ready for prime time when it comes to music production. New offerings from Linux audio ...