Music production on Fedora

Questions I have:

  1. Why can’t I get industry standard software for music production easily installed on Fedora?

  2. What is the difference between “Pulse Audio” and “ALSA” and “qJack”?

  3. Using WINE I have installed FruityLoops … why is there latency when I use my MIDI keyboard?

Any hint on what the industry standard is?

Have you tried using Fedora Jam? It’s pre-configured and populated with useful software. https://labs.fedoraproject.org/jam/

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Industry must release their software for Linux, and not just for Windows and MacOS
The best idea is to switch to native Linux applications

https://linuxhint.com/guide_linux_audio/

The best idea is to switch to native Linux applications.

Hi.

Thanks for the replies. In the end, I found that I am able to completely remove any latency by using wineasio.

It’s absolutely perfect and is working beautifully. Here’s the steps I had to take before the Makefile would work:

sudo dnf install jack-audio-connection-kit-devel

sudo dnf install wine-devel

And my wine dlls were in /lib64/wine so when the software had compiled, I copied it over using

sudo cp build64/wineasio.dll.so /usr/lib64/wine/wineasio.dll.so 

Then followed the rest of the README.

P.S. Sorry about the blunt opening question - I was getting frustrated.

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