Re: Using Csound Jack Backend with Pipewire

Did you try setting the buffer size with the PIPEWIRE_LATENCY 
environment variable? What you describe sounds like it should work and 
should be reported to the pipewire developers, but maybe that gets it 
running for now.

-- Nils

On 2/5/26 11:06 AM, Brandon Hale wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Has anyone been using csound with -+rtaudio=jack while using pipewire 
> as their jack backend? I've found that it leads to some weirdness, 
> including not playing back sound at all sometimes (this was happening 
> in non-predictable ways). Also, it seems to require the -B buffer size 
> to be 2048 for my machine, even though pw-top says it's running at 
> 1024 as its buffer size.
>
> Csound has been working great using -+rtaudio=pulse, but when I want 
> to use it for live midi stuff, I definitely will need to use the 
> -+rtaudio=alsa, or -+rtaudio=jack for that lower latency.
>
> Thank you again for your help,
> Brandon Hale
>