Do you have
any problems getting the latest audio apps? (that is, not
compiling, but already packaged)
I thought the entire philosophy of Gentoo was To Compile?
Somewhat true, but at least the package manager is taking care of that
for you. People make way too big of a deal about compile times. On a
decent modern machine, you won't be waiting that long before you can
use an app you have just emerged.
Audio on Gentoo is getting nicer by the day as a result of the rapidly
expanding ProAudio overlay: