AlbertA
Fractal Fanatic
I've been running Reaper 64-bit through wine for a while now, using an ASIO-to-jack configuration and it works well enough for use but not optimal.
However there's now experimental builds of Reaper for Linux available from their front download page (no longer hidden away in the forums
https://www.reaper.fm/download.php#linux_download
It works great! It's come a long way (the builds from the beginning of the year were pretty rough).
I use it with JACK.
The neat thing is the latest Reaper builds can use linux native calls like mlockall which prevents its memory from being swapped at all and set /dev/cpu_dma_latency (which disables Intel's C states) to prevent latency spikes and can properly set the JACK thread priorities (which was an issue with the wine version, mapping the ASIO thread priority to a proper JACK linux thread priority).
Together with a Real-time kernel or a low-latency kernel (which is what I use) makes for a super low latency DAW without drops. Awesome.
Next step is familiarizing myself with LinVST so I can run Superior Drummer 3
However there's now experimental builds of Reaper for Linux available from their front download page (no longer hidden away in the forums
https://www.reaper.fm/download.php#linux_download
It works great! It's come a long way (the builds from the beginning of the year were pretty rough).
I use it with JACK.
The neat thing is the latest Reaper builds can use linux native calls like mlockall which prevents its memory from being swapped at all and set /dev/cpu_dma_latency (which disables Intel's C states) to prevent latency spikes and can properly set the JACK thread priorities (which was an issue with the wine version, mapping the ASIO thread priority to a proper JACK linux thread priority).
Together with a Real-time kernel or a low-latency kernel (which is what I use) makes for a super low latency DAW without drops. Awesome.
Next step is familiarizing myself with LinVST so I can run Superior Drummer 3
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