Using KDE plasma, Archlinux, Pipewire, Focusrite 2i2 3rd Gen

Audio from built-in audio and via GPU into display speakers all works fine but audio through my Focusrite is badly distorted, like it is running at super-low quality.

I’ve spent most of today trying to work out how to make pipewire use the right bit/sample rates. It. This should be a basic GUI feature, and certainly shouldn’t need to sudo edit cryptic files to configure this stuff. I use Reaper and I’ll need to change bit / sample rates from time to time, so having to make with config files is just nuts. This should be a basic function available in the control panel (Like windows has had for decades). / rant

Anyway, I genuinely want to fix this problem and would really like a GUI tool for it, but a working config edit will do at this point. I can’ also make a script to tweak it on demand I suppose.

There is a video that suggests building a new kernel driver for it, which is even more nuts for something so basic.