easyeffects VS pipewire

Compare easyeffects vs pipewire and see what are their differences.

easyeffects

Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications (by wwmm)

pipewire

Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/) (by PipeWire)
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easyeffects pipewire
168 93
5,890 1,740
- 0.9%
9.8 9.9
3 days ago 6 days ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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easyeffects

Posts with mentions or reviews of easyeffects. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-12.
  • Improving perceived sound quality on the FW13.
    1 project | /r/framework | 7 Dec 2023
    Linux: EasyEffects (free and open-source)
  • Speaker Support in Asahi Linux
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    For DSP, we already can do that using something like Easy Effects[1][2].

    The biggest issue is acquiring proper impulse-response data. In theory, it has to be tuned per-model, so turning basically require pro-grade equipment and a recording studio. However, apparently many people assume Dolby is using the same profile for all laptops, so just copy-paste the same file here and there. Not really sure which is the real case.

    Anyways, Asahi can ship DSP turned on by default because the distro is specific to Apple. That's how Apple boosts the quality of its hardware, and the same applies to a distro dedicated to it.

    [1]: https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

  • [Recommendation] Not necessary, but cool software to tweak your devices (webcam, keyboard etc.)
    6 projects | /r/Fedora | 7 Sep 2023
    - Easy Effects: Effects for PipeWire applications; configure your speakers & microphones (e.g. noise reduction filter)
  • Volume normalization
    1 project | /r/ManjaroLinux | 10 Jul 2023
    Easyeffects maybe.
  • set a pre-amp for mic pipewire
    1 project | /r/linuxaudio | 20 Jun 2023
    EasyEffects could be a replacement for EqualizerAPO. You can do some gain staging there if you want, as well as a bunch of other stuff.
  • Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 29 May 2023
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 29 May 2023
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 28 May 2023
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2023
    Is this a general comment meant to apply to anything or are you specifically talking about Easy Effects here?

    It has installation instructions in the README, links to a wiki page with more information (https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/wiki/Package-Repositorie...), the application contains full documentation under the "Help" item in the menu (as many applications do) and they also have the same documentation online (https://wwmm.github.io/easyeffects/).

    Not sure what more you could ask for?

  • PipeWire 0.3.71
    1 project | /r/linux | 17 May 2023
    I guess they're referring to my tickets: https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/issues/2322 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues/3198

pipewire

Posts with mentions or reviews of pipewire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing easyeffects and pipewire you can also consider the following projects:

pulseeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications [Moved to: https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects]

noise-suppression-for-voice - Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph's RNNoise

pulseaudio-modules-bt - [Deprecated, see https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/issues/154] Adds Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, AAC codecs (A2DP Audio) support to PulseAudio on Linux

NoiseTorch - Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux.

pipewire-debian - Upstream Version of pipewire, wireplumber, roc-toolkit & blueman for debian/ubuntu

EasyEffects-Presets - Collection of PulseEffects presets

obs-ndi - NewTek NDI integration for OBS Studio

pulseeffects-presets - Collection of community-made presets for PulseEffects tailored for TUXEDO laptops.

piper - GTK application to configure gaming devices

AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses

BespokeSynth - Software modular synth