🧵 So, the #Recording with the vintage #RME #Fireface400 in #Ardour on old #macOS on a #MacBookPro 2017 went well, I guess.
This thread started with me praising #Pipewire on #Linux.
And yes, I still believe Pipewire is what users of Windows and OSX will envy us Linuxers for. One fine day.
As it is for now, none of my professional audio interfaces works with it. The Yamha 01v96i via USB doesn't, the RME Digi9652 (vintage PCI) doesn't, and the Fireface400 (vintage Firewire) used to work well with Jack's firewire backend, but it doesn't work so well with the newer ALSA kernel driver apparently.
It is possible to run these interfaces using a mixed mode of #Jack and Pipewire on #UbuntuStudio 24.04 still, but it means that you lose most of the convenience Pipewire actually introduces.
So, sadly, my conclusion for today is: Class Compliant USB audio interfaces and Pipewire are great. The rest, at lest for me & my gear, is not working.