I can't record audio for some reason

[DWW256]

When I create an input module, it won't register any sound input in the mixer, even after I route my computer's microphone to it. Other DAWs seem to work fine. I'm using PipeWire on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[spamatica]

When I create an input module, it won't register any sound input in the mixer, even after I route my computer's microphone to it. Other DAWs seem to work fine. I'm using PipeWire on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

I'm not versed in pipewire so there may be complexities I'm not aware of..
But, first make sure MusE is using the Jack backend (which I suppose pipewire should interface to), it should say JackAudioDevice at the bottom.

Could you describe how you routed the microphone? Basically you should use the => button on the Input Track.
There is also a description here: https://muse-sequencer.github.io/docs/beginners.html

The meter should come alive as soon as there is a working connection to the physical input

[DWW256]

I was using the JACK backend. When I followed the instructions in the docs, nothing was working—but when I switched to PulseAudio, everything magically started working correctly! Go figure!

Not sure if this is a PipeWire problem or an openSUSE problem. Perhaps I'll switch to Fedora some time and find out.

[spamatica]

Alright, weird.

Very likely there is some unknown (to me) behaviour of PipeWire that causes this.

Interesting that it works with PulseAudio. Though, with the RtAudio backend the support is rather basic and a stereo input is auto-routed to the Input Track, so maybe it is to be expected.
However, latency will likely be a rather big issue, which is why I mostly do not recommend it for audio recording.