pavucontrol is for pulseaudio which you probably would rather not use when dealing with more professional audio
Ikonaka
joined 2 years ago
I used to use two different surface pro 5s with linux surface kernel arch and KDE. The first one worked really well even with pen input and I really liked the form factor, after this device got stolen I bought another surface 5pro but this time I could not get pen input to work properly. You just run into weird bugs with these deices. Pen input worked with some hacking but then later it didnt work again. If you catch a device that works its really nice if not you loose some functionality
For Djing I love to use Mixxx, really solid for mixing and organising music, though I still need a VM with rekordbox if I wanna prepare usbs for club equipment. For music making I like Cardinal which is similar to VCV rack and I do compostion with reaper. Overall the proaudio pacakge group of Arch linux will have most of the stuff you need. For interfaces most class compliant usb interfaces are fine. I control them with qpwpgraph, though I want to try out firewire sometime soon since its legacy and getting reeeeaaaallly cheap second hand