In reply to @evils:nixos.dev
any advice for someone interested in trying Ardour?

In reply to @gdesforges:matrix.org
If you have experience with DAWs you should be fine, but this YT channel has helped me a lot
https://m.youtube.com/@unfa00

In reply to @evils:nixos.dev
i think i saw that before, but was looking for something about ardour7
are you saying ardour7 is close enough to ardour6?

In reply to @gdesforges:matrix.org
In NixOS I activated pipewire with JACK and it works amazingly well with my focusrite 2i2

hey there. im a nixos newbie and had some questions regarding audio + daw setup.

• i use pipewire-jack and ardour but found that i had to use the gui app pipecontrol to force the correct samplerate for a given project (i have to manually match that). is there a better way of doing this?
• by default pipewire defaults to an acceptable powerefficient resampling profile. but i want to change that to be higher quality in the pipewire config. what is a good way to set my own config in a nixos configuration?

In reply to @rampoina:matrix.org
I don't remember having to do anything in ardour regarding sample rate, why do you have to change it system wide ?

In reply to @gdesforges:matrix.org
For plugins, I think ardour finds plugins as per LV2_PATH or smth

In reply to @gdesforges:matrix.org
In my case I set this env in my NixOS config to directly get LV2 plugins yeah

so just to clarify what i did:

  users.users.user = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    extraGroups = [ "wheel" ]; # Enable ‘sudo’ for the user.
    packages = with pkgs; [
      # daw
      ardour
      pipecontrol
      helvum
      libsamplerate
      lsp-plugins
      x42-plugins
      carla
      tunefish
    ];
  };

this is in my NixOS config. I rebuild my config. I opened Ardour and there were only the default plugins.