Hello everyone,
I’m re-installing all I need to make music after a long time.
I’m on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS and right now Im installing all the vst I had on the previous version, at least the ones I remember.
I installed Hydrogen and I’m going to install Ardour (I have the 7.2.0 and I have to remember how to do it). The question is the following: I have a usb external card to which I had connected the monitors, that I removed them since I will connect the card to the stereo system when I need it. At the same time I have a Logitech speakers connected to the computer via headphone output. If I remember correctly, in the previous version of Ubuntu if I turned on the external card I listened through the monitors, if I kept it off and changed the audio output from the computer settings, I could listen through the speakers connected to the audio output. But I don’t remember if I had QjackCtl installed. I think you had said that with the latest versions of Ardour it was not needed, same thing with Hydrogen.
Is it correct? I haven’t tried it yet, however can I use both Hydrogen and Ardour without installing Qjackctl saving the option to switch the audio output from the external card to the Logitech speakers and vice versa?
thank you
Ubuntu 24.04 uses pipewire by default, so you don’t need to (and shouldn’t really) use qjackctl.
Thank you Largos. And what about Jack? I installed everything and started to remember how everything works, also with the help of some tutorials online.
I watched a video, don’t remember which one, in which the guy says there is a difference, when opening Arour, between Ladspa and Jack.
@Majik posted a very helpful link in another thread for a repository with updated pipewire packages for Ubuntu 24.04. Pipewire development has slowed down recently, but the bug fix releases have still been too fast for the LTS distributions to keep up.
Launchpad updated pipewire repository
You can manage connections directly from the Ardour audio connection manager window, but if you like the QJackCtl style of application, the equivalent for use with Pipewire (which provides both desktop PulseAudio type server and JACK server) is QPWGraph.
Yes, you can do that through the audio connections manager window in Ardour.
Pipewire provides a JACK server. It is a module, so you have to make sure the pipewire-jack module is installed, but from comments from other people it seems to be installed by default in Ubuntu 24.04.
Those things are completely unrelated. JACK is an audo server, and LADSPA is an outdated plugin format, so either you have not remembered correctly, or that guy is completely unreliable so you should just disregard everything in the video.
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