EasyEffects (formerly known as PulseEffects) is a

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GTK

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for Unix-like systems which provides a large array of audio effects and

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to apply to input and output audio streams. The application originally used the Pulseaudio sound server as it allowed effects to be added to audio streams with ease, however, now runs exclusively on the

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sound server after a port in 2021. It is published under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.

Overview

EasyEffects uses

to process incoming and outgoing audio streams independently and can apply various sound effects in the form of plug-ins made by different developer teams such as Calf Studio Gear, MDA. LV2 and GStreamer. All plugins have their own presets and can be applicable inside the suite rather than having to use a different mixer or executing a

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from the command line. Available output effects are limiter, autovolume,

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of dynamic range, filter, 30 bands parametric equalizer,

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enhancer, exciter, reverbation,

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, maximizer and spectrum analyzer. Available input effects are WebRTC, limiter, compressor, filter, equalizer, deeser, reverbation, pitch shift and spectrum analyzer.

References

External links

EasyEffects
on GitHub Audio software Audio software for Linux Audio software that uses GTK Free audio software Linux audio video-related software Pitch modification software Software that uses GStreamer Software using the GPL license {{multimedia-software-stub