(Linux) Renoise extremely choppy after installing Linut Mint 22.1

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I never had this problem with Renoise at all in Linux Mint 21.3 and prior.

But doing a clean install of 22.1 (not an “upgrade” from 21.3, but completely nuking the drives and installing from scratch)… Renoise now behaves in a completely unusable way. While it “plays” the songs, the audio is very choppy/skippy, and certain graphical elements such as the phase-view box animate like slideshows.

The flavor of Mint I installed was 22.1 Cinnamon edition.

Any ideas what might be going on?

Edit: an additional detail that might be useful is that when turning on the Metronome for a default blank song, it doesn’t sound 100% evenly-spaced like it ought to.

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Have you choose the good audio subsystem?

If I remember,on Linux ,there is pulse,alsa(old)and…?
I don’t remember

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Have you installed “proprietary driver” for your GFX card?

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10 milliseconds latency?

Have you tried “jack audio”?

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Can you run this script and post the output pleaae?

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ALSA, just as it was before. nvidia driver 550 installed.

When you mentioned latency I monkeyed around with those settings and got it working properly.

The “Periods/Buffer” setting seems to have been the culprit. I had set “Periods/Buffer” to 3 before (by the way, the OS installation was fresh but my homedir was transferred over so all the user settings are as they were before).

I’ve set Periods/Buffer to 2 and now it works.

On further monkeying around with the setting, something odd I notice is that only powers of 2 for that value result in non-choppy audio – 2, 4, 8, 16 sound perfect. Any other value = choppy audio, choppy graphics.

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I am on windows,I use sometime “bespoke synth” (Radio-sequencers control sequencers) )to reverse “DAW fatigue”…And Bespoke is really annoying with audio parameters

The right buffer,with right resolulion,with right samplerate

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