 Hey, it's Anfa. I was asked what's the exciting stuff that the future holds for Linux and open-source audio production? So I Think I can mention three things right now and I'm gonna start with the least exciting maybe and then go to the more exciting and finish with the most exciting stuff To keep you watching First let's say about new software releases. I'm not gonna talk about FICO a Wavetable synthesizer that some people say is better than serum almost vital. So that's gonna be a pretty much revolution and Yeah, there hasn't been an official announcement about the date of release or platforms of release or price or The license of the code or whatever, but I am excited. I Won't say anything more, but there's also other software being developed There's new plugins like the music is developing new plugins Constantly LSP is improving their plugins and developing new ones like I've saw a crossover filter from them coming up Gion cake is being developed. It has more features being added and stuff and also zero of them is getting more and more stable by today So next VST free support You might not know that Stainberg the company that created the VST format has killed off VST 2 some time ago I believe they made it illegal to develop new VST 2 plugins because you know, it's a proprietary format They can do whatever they want. Anyway, that's why we need open standards like LV 2 The problem is new plugins are not going to come out in the VST 2 format So all the DAWs need to support VST 3 if they want to have new plugins available for the users As far as I know so far on Linux the only software that supports VST 3 is Karla The non-linear plugin host, which is awesome, but it's not a DAW I've downloaded a new development build of Ardor and this one supports VST 3 as well which means that Ardor is getting ready for the new plugin releases, which is great And it also means I can finally make videos about search Which is a very exciting and cool synthesizer that has a VST 3 version available on Linux And it also has a LV 2 version, but it's experimental and it's not working correctly And the third thing that is I think was most exciting actually is pipe wire pipe wire is a sound server and also a video server that is going to replace both Jack and Pulse Audio If you don't know Jack is the sound server that lets programs talk to each other It lets you record and play low latency audio and it's generally used for audio production on Linux Pulse audio on the other hand is the consumer sound server It lets you manage the volume of your web browser of your video player of your games and switch to different devices easily and also Use Bluetooth headphones and that kind of stuff for the longest time It was really difficult to get them working together now It should be very easy because Pulse Audio has a module That makes it aware and makes it cooperate with Jack Basically, you install that Pulse Audio Jack module and whenever Jack starts Pulse Audio should switch to it and become just Never sync and source in Jack But for some reason still many people have problems with that and I have some issues myself So I'm really excited for pipe wire because it's going to simplify this We're gonna have just one sound server not two and it's also going to make the Linux audio much more flexible So pipe wire is very exciting. I've read that their basic functionality for audio is more or less complete right now And they've called people to test it so they can find all the bugs. All right, that's all I wanted to tell you today Thanks for watching. I hope you've got excited for some stuff Also huge thanks to all the people who support me on patreon If you would like to join them, please go to patreon.com Or there's also a Free software based and cheaper alternative called liberapay So you can go to liberapay.com slash ANFA and also support me there And I will see you in the next video now go and make some music