Recording with Ardour and pipewire

Erdie

Hi,

I am using Ardour since version 1 but up to now with jack only. Since I migrated to Pulse/pipewire it seems to work pretty good with pulse(pipewire) as well. But I did not figure our how to route the input channel from the pipwire framework to a recording track from Ardour. Is that even possible?
Using it for cutting sessions where you just monitoring is already a convenient alternative but it would be nice if you could record with just one mono input channel.

Thanks
Erdie
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Erdie · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2023 6:59 pm Post subject:

I guess there is no way to record with pipewire. No prolbem, I will then just switch to jack on demand.
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CaptainBlood · Advocate Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 3624

Works fine here.
Too little time for details.

Try to install helvum from overlays (9999 is fine here) as a patchbay interface for pipewire.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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Erdie · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:23 am Post subject:

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Erdie · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:41 pm Post subject:

I tried helvum-0.3.4-r2 from the guru overlay. To explain the error in detail I will have to recreate the issue again. I would do it if you are interested.
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Erdie · Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:56 am Post subject:

I tried qpwgraph, this works well for me so far:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph

from the "guru" overlay
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Erdie · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2023 10:37 am Post subject:

Neverthless, I don´t get Ardour to record any audio source. The problem is, that Ardour doesn´t show any audio input, which I could potentially connect to any other output source. Therefore the qpwgraph does not help here. I tried to open a record track and activated the record button but in the graphical overview Ardour is shown with two output connectors only.

So I have to switch to jack. That does not matter in general but for small project or if you want to record a source from your system I would make sense to stick to pipewire.
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