I am trying to get renoise to work properly with pipewire. Currently the only way I can get audio to work in renoise is by using ALSA audio, which takes full priority over audio, meaning I cannot get audio from anything else on my PC while Renoise is running. I am able to use Bitwig perfectly by running as pulse audio, but there is no option for this in Renoise. Has anyone succesfully used pipewire with Renoise before? How would I go about setting this up?
-Linux Mint
-Renoise 3.4.4
Hello,
If you select ALSA then pipewire-alsa is used.
Just install “pipewire-jack” package and select “Jack” for Renoise.
Linux Lnx 6.12.8-1-rt8-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Thu Jan 9 22:11:24 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Side note: Bitwig dropped support for PulseAudio as of v3.5.
As Martblek said, pipewire-jack is the way to go.
I believe on linux mint you will then need to modify the renoise launch script and prefix it with ‘pw-jack’, as detailed here: PipeWire: pw-jack.
For instructions on how to use the pipewire implementation of jack system wide, so you don’t need to use pw-jack, see here: PipeWire - Debian Wiki.
You can then use qpwgraph to route audio to and from renoise.
Linux audio has come a long way but can still be quite confusing. Feel free to post any more questions. I use renoise on linux every day and am sure I can help.
Adding pw-jack to the launch script worked immediately! Thanks so much more that fix, everything is working great now. I also appreciate you extending the offer to help, I’ll be sure to keep it in mind as I will undoubtedly run into other audio problems with Linux. Thanks again.