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DAW stands for Digital Audio Workstation, and is a computer with hardware and software specialized for professional audio editing.
That includes also the use a low latency audio server, like is JACK, which is something like PulseAudio for Professionals and of course, there should be no PulseAudio.
From what I read, Audacity is useless for professional audio editing under a general purpose operating system like is Slackware.
And looks like Mr. Volkerding has no intentions to go further than extra's "pure-alsa" for the those who want low latency audio editing. Also this JACK looks like is very difficult to be configured properly by the end user, then its presence will highly limit even the usefulness of "pure-alsa" .
That's why was said that is doubtfully that you will see Audacity added to Slackware.
Last edited by ZhaoLin1457; 11-17-2019 at 11:48 PM.
From what I read, Audacity is useless for professional audio editing under a general purpose operating system like is Slackware.
Can you cite your source for this assertion? I'm not exactly sure these days what counts as "professional audio editing", but as far as I can tell, Audacity is pretty feature-full and powerful.
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Also this JACK looks like is very difficult to be configured properly by the end user, then its presence will highly limit even the usefulness of "pure-alsa" .
JACK isn't difficult, but it does help to have some additional tools. I've used qjackctl in the past, and it's pretty easy once you've got that going. I've not redone any of my systems yet as combination of alsa-pulseaudio-jack for the same reason I've not done PAM: I'm waiting for 15.0 to come out so that I have something stable to work with and don't have to constantly recompile certain programs.
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That's why was said that is doubtfully that you will see Audacity added to Slackware.
I'd say that no, the difficulty or lack of difficulty in using JACK is not the reason it won't likely be included. I'd say that one only need to observe our BDFL over the years and see that Audacity definitely falls into the strictly-optional category. For stuff like this, I'm glad we got alien and SBo. :-)
What are we amateurs supposed to use? I use Audacity.
Use Alien Bob's package. Audacity can be a pain to compile, although it's much easier now than it was. He's got packages for jack (really jack2) and qjackctl, as well. I'd recommend pausing pulseaudio when using jack: under setup, in the settings tab, advanced tab, in "Server Prefix" do "pasuspender -- jackd"
Slackware might not be intended for digital audio, but it works just fine, even on such specialized hardware.
Audacity will work fine in a standard slackware install with pulseaudio, just don't expect super low latency for live recording. That works better with alsa-only and a custom compiled kernel with realtime options switched on.
These are all optional things that a user can do to their system if they choose, but it's probably not needed in the general packages that slackware distributes. Also it's probably a better topic for a separate forum thread.
Not exactly a request but heads up, the new ISC BIND 9.15.6 (and likely the upcoming 9.16) requires libuv, which is not currently part of official Slackware tree but it is found on SBo.
It is not considered "officially stable", but I have been running it for some time now, and didn't spot any problems, so maybe it deserves a place at least in -testing? I compiled it with the official SlackBuild, so apparently no modification is needed.
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