Hello all
I have been a fellow archer for a while now, and am not pleased with systemd. The whole journal thing feels very convoluted, and ten years ago Linux was fine without it! It seems the writing is on the wall that systemd is going to advance more and more, especially with the news of it maintaining home directories (why do we need that?) Although system-homed is optional, I am scared it will become mandatory. Not only that, but many people talk about the security issues with systemd. I use my personal GNU/Linux computer (with Arch) for music composing/production/research at my job. I also use it for things like playing games with gog and steam proton.

Are there other people who use obarun for music making? How much music software requires systemd (or is compiled with it under the pro-audio package group)?

Either way, I am very interested in Arch without systemd, which is what obarun seems to be about. It also seems the community here is friendly.

Can't wait to experiment more!
Hi and welcome, make sure you read the wiki entry (introduction to 66) and look through the services in the observice repository (pacman -Sl observice).

There are a few people who are into music so specific help/requests will draw their attention. One is Jean-Michel, one of the main devs of the distribution. If you like irc there is an # obarun channel there where you could ask for help if the forum seems quiet (no problems no noise :)

There is fluidsynth (and qt gui qsynth) I know of and used in the past. Also audacity
Yo

One of m'y main hobbies and interests is music. i play drulms but i also love bass guitars.
i remember when my mate lent me his usb audio mixer... ; connected bass guitar to it, headphones... played some songs i ripped from cds into wav format.. i opened ardour and i was able to hezr what i play on bass and music in the same time... it was so good...

I personally love audio quality here... Alsaplayer + .wav audio files and dexent headphones plays well...
Last week i have recorded some drums using audacity and just mic from thinkpad t500 and here is effect
https://files.catbox.moe/vk4vku.mp3

most people use apple/microsoft stuff cuz theyre too lazy to learn new things to talke whats out there for free... its bettter to pay money instead... and follow schemes other people do.
i am only concerned with alsa being aple to play audio on only single program. when i plzy game wesnoth for exzmple then alsaplzyer wont play sound... i must turn off wesnoth and then play files from alsaplayer... but then theres no sound when i plzy wesnoth ;o
Hello brandflake11

Welcome aboard the Obarun.


@ Mounerje

You can mix multiple streams with alsa. You have to configure the .asoundrc file.
Personally I go through Jack now, for everything and even Steam audio input/ouput can be used with Jack with the help of the module aloop.

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