So I made an impulse buy yesterday and bought a used 2020 Mac Mini M1 and wanted to see if anyone on the forum has experience with running Ardour in Asahi Linux?
I am not as much worried about Ardour itself as I know Ardour has an ARM version, but I am more concerned about all the plugins that I use working.
I don’t mind compiling anything if I have to, but it would be ideal if I could avoid it.
Hector Martin used and contributed to Ardour before venturing off to start Ashai Linux, he also still hang our on #ardour IRC.
PS. You can run Ardour on macOS just fine, and many free/libre software plugins are also available for that platform (and you can get a whole lot of non-free ones too).
There are many reasons to prefer GNU/Linux, yet macOS and Coreaudio is quite a good setup for pro-audio. Besides it’s a Unix system, that comes with a Terminal, vi, python and a C/C++ compiler. Have you given it a try before installing Asahi?
Aside from trying to get Linux to work on it, macOS is the other main reason I bought. In case you haven’t noticed by any of my Linux videos I really enjoy the aesthetics of macOS so I thought I might as well just bite the bullet and buy a Mac.
I am going to be dual booting for a while anyway until all the components are supported and/or when Apple stops supporting the device.
Ardour works mostly fine as packaged by Fedora. Main issues I’ve noticed recently are some random crashes, and that it consistently crashes when doing a non-RT export with PipeWire (workaround is to switch to PulseAudio before export). These may be the same underlying issue, and are probably a regression since I don’t remember it happening before. I should probably look into it when I get a chance.
Aside: We actually use the LSP LV2 plugins in the speaker support stuff, so those are always installed and they get extra testing on every machine 
What doesn’t work is Windows plugins via yabridge and friends, but I hear Lina is going to look into that…
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