Apply Real-Time Effect to Audio on Ubuntu with Easy Effects

Many moons ago I covered a neat audio tool called PulseEffects, which made it easy to modify the sound output of any app on a global or per-app basis. As you may infer from the name, PulseEffects was built around and designed for PulseAudio. Most major Linux distributions have switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire for their audio handling. Enter Easy Effects, a successor to PulseEffects that sports a modern GTK4 interface, and an expanded set of features that enable to function as a powerful audio effects processor for PipeWire applications. It offers an equalizer, limiter, and compressor (among others) and :sys_more_orange:
#News #AudioApps #EasyEffects #Sound

:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/easy-effects-ubuntu

Just noticed a downside: it often uses 40-50% of my CPU when all the effects are active. I might tweak effects to see if I can find some sound-CPU usage balance
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I installed EasyEffects on Fedora today, added several effects and tweaked them a bit just based on my tastes while listening to streaming music through Firefox.

I wish I'd done this sooner. My music already sounds better.
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects
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