5 Feb
2026
5 Feb
'26
10:13 p.m.
Did you try setting the buffer size with the PIPEWIRE_LATENCY
environment variable? What you describe sounds like it should work and
should be reported to the pipewire developers, but maybe that gets it
running for now.
-- Nils
On 2/5/26 11:06 AM, Brandon Hale wrote:
Hello all,
Has anyone been using csound with -+rtaudio=jack while using pipewire
as their jack backend? I've found that it leads to some weirdness,
including not playing back sound at all sometimes (this was happening
in non-predictable ways). Also, it seems to require the -B buffer size
to be 2048 for my machine, even though pw-top says it's running at
1024 as its buffer size.
Csound has been working great using -+rtaudio=pulse, but when I want
to use it for live midi stuff, I definitely will need to use the
-+rtaudio=alsa, or -+rtaudio=jack for that lower latency.
Thank you again for your help,
Brandon Hale