It’s been several months since I switched to Linux mint and it’s been great so far. My biggest headache has been dealing with Linux audio and trying to use JACK. I have an electronic drum kit and I use Reaper for recording and using VSTs with yabridge. I managed to get this to work but it only works with ALSA. I want to have YouTube open and play along to songs and this does not work with ALSA. I’ve researched and experimented with JACK for way longer than I cared to. When I switch to JACK, reaper doesn’t recognize my e kit, even tho ita connected with patchbay, and it also makes my default audio output a dummy output. I’ve gotten to the point of just going back to windows cuz this has been a nightmare. Pulse audio does what I want but the latency is too high.
Is getting a second drive with windows on it the best solution?
EDIT: I have made some progress, I switched to bitwig, uses pipewire, mapped my pads to midi notes and assigned them sounds. I got the latency good and I’m able to play with YouTube. The only problem is bitwig doesn’t recognize all the zones in my cymbals. I’m not sure how to fix that, when I was using Steven slate in reaper it registered all the zones.
This is probably not the response you want, but as a longtime linux user, i just use a standalone DAW for recording. Got the fostex model 12 a while back and love it. Easy enough to bounce stuff to the pc for automations, or i just mix mix on the board often.
Jack is cool, but i always felt it was janky, granted that was 15 years ago. Never really messed with midi much, but yeah. Linux is a complicated beast, and audio has almost always been a sore point.
I never thought of getting a standalone DAW before. That is an option but idk if I could even figure that out. I’m a noob with audio equipment