Is PipeWire ready for your studio? Maybe not yet!

Is Pipewire ready for your studio? Eh, maybe not yet! The Jack Audio Connection Kit still outperforms Pipewire at 64 samples buffer 44.1khz. This is roughly a 1.5 millisecond block latency, and represents about 3 milliseconds of round-trip latency. For live performance, or studios that rely heavily on midi input + software monitoring, I would personally stick with the realtime kernel, low latency tweaks, and jack audio connection kit. For hobbyists that would like to connect audio and midi devices with ease, Pipewire may be the better choice. In fact, it now comes standard with many Linux distributions. The addition of the pipewire-jack package and a patcher such as Carla make it a pretty stress-free setup for most. Some fine-tuned configuration will likely be necessary for decent latency when recording audio though, as pipewire defaults to 1024 samples (24 ms block latency, 48 ms round-trip).

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[richardjecooke]

I'm trying to use Reaper in Ubuntu for the first time. Not sure whether to enable pipewire in the Studio Installer. Are you saying in this video that pipewire is just a bit slower? Or that the runs things will actually break the sound produced?

[foss_sound]

Quick and dirty comparison. I like. Have you tried this jack_pipewire_bus_bridge thingy?

[daviddunkelheit]

What do the “x runs” signify in this test? Are they indicative of collisions, errors or faults?

[NarendraU]

Is this still the case? I'm on Linux Mint right now, trying to decide between setting up Jack or Pipewire. Thanks!

[YPLabs]

How do you got Pipewire to work in reaper at all ?

[amigalemming]

Interesting, CPU load is 6% in both cases but PipeWire produces xruns. I would have expected xruns on high CPU loads but not at 6%.

[BoDiddly]

What program did you use to show the statistics?

[quackmandoo]

Bro what? 6.2 is not "six and a half" even with rounding and they both peaked at 6.2. resource wise they both seemed the same. Now how about that latency comparison?

[yHuK_]

What is your program for building the music?