PC
- Nobara Linux
- Fractal Torrent
- Asus Proart B550
- AMD Ryzen 5800X3D
- Noctua NH-D15
- GSkill 2x16GB DDR4-3600
- Powercolor Hellhound 7900XTX
- Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB
- Crucial P3 Plus 4TB
- Asus WiFi 6E card
- Be Quiet Dark Power 13
Husky height adjustable workbench
- DT770 Pros
- AT2040 Mic
- Yamaha MG06X Mixer
- Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 3rd gen
- Drop BMR1 speakers
- P.I. Engineering L-Trac
- ESP32-S3-Box3
- Sony Dualsense
- BenQ lightbar
Glorious GMMK Pro
- GMK WoB
- holy pandas + tealios v2
Monitors
- Gigabyte M27Q-X
- LG Dualup
Camera
- Sony a5100
- Sigma 16mm f/1.4
- no-name LED panel
- Amaran 100d
can I ask how well the Focusrite works on Linux? beautiful setup by the way.
I have one, it simply just works but I haven’t tinkered around much.
Apologies for the unsolicited quiz, but you may have some answers to questions I’ve been wondering about recently:
Have you used it much for audio production? (perhaps with bitwig?) are there any noticeable issues with the latency or buffering? What sampling rate do you use it at? Do you have access to the optical I/O and everything? I’m assuming you don’t get the focusrite control software (and therefore the remote control features)?
Full support has been patched into the kernel for a couple years now, and Focusrite seems to be pretty friendly to Linux compared to other manufacturers.
No noticeable lag or buffering that I’ve found. I’ve played around with a few DAWs, but I don’t need them for my workflow, so I haven’t spent a ton of time with them, and I’m no audio engineer.
The Focusrite control software doesn’t work, but you can get remote control capabilities lots of other ways on Linux such as with remote Pulse Audio or Pipewire control, or simply using SSH.
Ah yeah of course, the fact I could use pipewire for the remote aspect completely slipped my mind.
That’s pretty great news then—next time I get a free weekend, I’ll be giving it a go.
Basic stuff works but I haven’t tried anything more than plugging in headphones and a mic