Replacement for pipewire-jack-dropin (404 in AUR)

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Replacement for pipewire-jack-dropin (404 in AUR)

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With the removal of pipewire-jack-dropin in AUR, I have had to use a different graphing application such as Pipewire or Catia. Until I figured out that I need to use either Qjackctl, Patchage, or Catia, I have been struggling to find out how to get Carla to show me the list of audio devices' inputs and outputs. Upgrading Pipewire (including pipewire-jack) from 0.3.43-1 to 0.3.43-5 in Arch Linux conflicts with jack2 package in Arch Linux, so I said "yes" and let it upgrade and the whole thing messed up once I rebooted my machine. I had to do something that required the removal of pipewire-jack-dropin and as I needed to redownload the package from the AUR again, now the package is not available!

The package "pipewire-jack-dropin" exposes the list of audio devices to Carla.
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Without the "pipewire-jack-dropin" package, this is what it looks like:
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I had to download cadence-git from the AUR because the "cadence" package has a hard dependency for "jack2" and because of that, installing Cadence requires a removal of pipewire-jack. To get Catia, I had to download the "cadence-git" from the AUR. Now Catia sees Carla as a JACK client without the "pipewire-jack-dropin" package:
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Catia does look better than Patchage, which works as well, but it's too ugly for my liking. However, Carla does look better than Catia due to the spacing of ports.

For those wondering: I do make use of PulseAudio-Jack module, as Pipewire-Pulse does not support 5.1 surround sound when using Proton or Wine. For example, in a native version of Portal (without Steam's Proton), I get 5.1 surround sound, but with Proton and Wine, I only get stereo sound. With PulseAudio standalone and along with JACK module, I get full 5.1 surround sound. However, this curiosity is off-topic and beyond the scope of my thread.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire ... issues/876

How can I make Carla function similar to Catia and Patchage? The only way I know is to install the "pipewire-jack-dropin" package, but like I said, it's gone from AUR.
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Re: Replacement for pipewire-jack-dropin (404 in AUR)

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I have a solution for those who came across my thread.
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Simply change from Patchbay (default) to Multiple Clients next to Process Mode and you should be good to go after restarting Carla. That's just one simple change that I did not think about.
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Music Interest: New Age w/ a mix of modern smooth jazz, light techno/trance & downtempo -- something Epcot Future World/Tomorrowland-flavored.
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