Understanding Garuda audio settings

[ninioArtillero]

I'm new to Garuda (and Arch Linux for that matter) and I'm really exited by this OS. It's been a smooth experience so far but I've been having problems setting my music production environment as I used to have (previously in AV Linux).

I'm trying to get JACK applications (SuperCollider in particular) running and communicating through Cadence. I've been experimenting with enabling/disabling the "JACK support" setting in "Garuda Assistant" -> "System Components". SuperCollider will not boot without it, but anyway no audio will come out of it. Cadence doesn´t display the main system sink/source, so I can´t connect the audio. I would love to just make everything work with Pipewire as it seems an interesting project, but I'm guessing I'll have to disable it and just go with Pulse Audio + JACK. By the way, what does the "ALSA support" setting installs? For what I know ALSA is the main audio server in Linux and is not sustituted for Pipewire. Or does it?

I haven't been able to find documentation on the audio "support "packages associated with the settings in Garudas "System Components". I would like to understand audio in Garuda Linux and how does this settings work. Where should I look and what do you recommend to set this up!

Thanks for you attention!

[filo]

Hi there, welcome!
These aspects are almost completely unknown to me, but if you are new to Arch, please consider the Arch wiki your first and probably main reference. Eg

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture
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[ninioArtillero]

Thanks I'll study those resources. I've heard a lot of great things about the Arch Wiki.

On the Garuda specifics, what I've discovered so far: the audio support options in the System Components tab of Garuda Assistant install a corresponding support package from the Chaotic AUR, which are meta-packages (a selection of corresponding audio framework packages are installed by it).