#pipewire has recently appeared on my radar and looks very promising!

Unfa did a nice video about this just recently as well:
https://mastodon.social/@unfa/106941984958573068

I'm currently using an old (but good!) firewire audio card in my studio and it's been working fine with #jackaudio + #ffado so far.

Pipewire looked like it didn't support firewire, but it now supports the old (somewhat broken) ALSA firewire driver that was fixed and merged into the 5.14 kernel:
https://hackaday.com/2021/07/13/the-linux-kernel-5-14-audio-update/

Exciting!