My Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) setup

Currently, I make audio with MIDI sequencer / WAV on Ubuntu with ubuntu-studio-installer. But then

• ubuntu-studio-installer is for installing linux-lowlatency kernel only.
• I removed Studio Control, and add KXStudio repo and install Cadence for JACK.
  • Cadence for JACK works well with headphones, but not Bluetooth speakers.
• QSynth, with installed SoundFonts for MIDI.
• Instead of Ardour, I use Rosegarden for audio mixing.
• Rosegarden can edit WAV with Audacity, for WAV transformation.
  • Oddly, I can't find a way for Rosegarden to render MIDI, but the can easily be fixed with Cadence Render.
• Hydrogen drumkits, to generate MIDI for drums.
• Frescobaldi, to generate MIDI for piano.
  • Can be simpler to use than Rosegarden's built-in score editor.
• Both Rosegarden and Hydrogen have lots of examples and demos.
• pavucontrol or PulseAudio Volume Control, if you need to tweak the loudness.

As for Arch variant (I started with Arch), you can install most things from AUR, but you might use linux-rt or linux-zen, instead of linux-lowlatency.