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Summer Vibes
It’s been a busy Summer for me. May and June were spent packing up my lab (new carpet!), finishing a paper for ICMC and then preparing to teach Summer Session. July was entirely absorbed with teaching (CPSC S134.) Now I am somehow already into week 2 of August and staring at the start of the school year in two weeks! I’m not ready.
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A New Computer
I probably set up and configure (or reconfigure) at least ~5 computers a year for professional audio. A few years back I started configuring some…
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Priority: Wallpaper
I hereby confess that the “niceties” of a functional lab image have never been my priority. Part of a unified look-and-feel for any computer are…
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New Article: Pro Audio on Linux
Like many of you, I keep an eye on r/linuxaudio for announcements, software updates, and generally to try to help people new to Linux audio…
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Bad Pipewire! Bad KDE Linux!
It’s the end of May, Spring is slowly giving way to Summer as the bees buzz around flowering trees and Pipewire is broken on KDE…
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Multichannel Audio Devices and Linux (not a love story)
Something has been bothering me for some time since moving to PipeWire on my Linux boxes, and that is the way multichannel audio devices are handled. As we all know (and loath), Linux audio is complicated and terrible, but the upshot is that it gives us a lot of control and the possibility of extremely low latency — critical to realtime audio recording, processing, programming, etc.
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