So i have been only using VCV rack for a week, and have been having so much fun with it, it’s incredible, however I decided i wanted to move over to linux since it is compatable. I was running it on my 2012 macbook just fine and now that I am on the up to date linux mint, it fails miserably, despite my efforts.
I have been trying to use Jack with varying buffer and sample rates to no avail, shit devolves into a glitched out mess and the entire thing gets choppy.
VCV rack has been so fucking life changing for me the past two weeks, and to not have it as a creative resource is so fucking sad, I have been trying to trouble shoot this for the past 5 hours and im just stumped, if I can’t figure this shit out I will probably just trash all of my saved shit to avoid the whole file transfer nightmare I did in order to put linux on this computer and just try and run catalina again.
Have you already tried using PulseAudio as audio driver?
On my current HP laptop (running Linux Mint), I never managed to get VCV running correctly when using Jack (glitching & choppy audio, like you described). This is with the internal audio interface of the laptop.
With a (rather cheap) external USB audio interface, I did manage to get clean audio through Jack in VCV.
However, using PulseAudio instead of Jack as driver works fine on both the internal & external audio interface, so I’m just using that now.
Yes I have, to no avail. On linux mint it’s considerably fucked up no matter if I use pulseaudio or jack, whereas on catalina I had no issues at all. I tried to install Manjaro, since others said that VCV worked great for them on there, and have found some improvement while using an interface, but I don’t always want to be lugging an interface around and prefer to be able to use VCV without it on certain occassions, and even with the interface it is performing a lower standard than before I put linux on here… At this point I’m considering reinstalling my mac os on here in a partition but I don’t know how feasible that even is, or if I’m going to risk bricking my computer entirely.