Hello,

I am fairly new to Debian and only recently have switched from arch to Debian (sway). I really love it so far btw. feels a lot more stable.

Sound is also working. However I do not have a way to control the volume right now. On Arch I had PulseAudio with pactl. I would like to not use PulseAudio and just rely on PipeWire as it seems to be the future (at least for now). What kind of CTL do people on here have setup to control audio? I believe alsa-mixer works also, im just a bit scared of going of the beaten path and wanna do things right.

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    6 days ago

    Not sure I have enough experience with audio subsystems to give a ton of advice, but I do a little bit of music production with bitwig on Debian / kde neon. One thing I’ve found to be completely indispensable is a little app called qpwgraph. It gives you a live updating representation of the in/out nodes in your pipewire system and lets you patch to your hearts content. Very reminiscent of JACK’s patchbay.

    You might also look into wireplumber, I think it has some additional cli tools.

    Beyond needing to use qpwgraph to fix the occasional goofy default routing, I really haven’t needed to do much to keep pipewire working. It feels like a huge upgrade from pulse from both a latency and ease of management perspective. Hope it works well for you!

    EDIT: now realizing that you may have been asking a more specific question than I’m prepared to answer. Hope my comment helps, anyway.

    • Vogi@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Thank you, yea the question was meant to be more specific but you actually helped me tons!

      I didn’t know wireplumber had cli tools! I already had it installed because i believe you have to more or less.