EasyEffects
EasyEffects (formerly known as PulseEffects) is a free and open-source Qt application for Unix-like systems which provides a large array of audio effects and filters 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 PipeWire sound server after a port in 2021. The application also switched to using the Qt toolkit in version v8.0.0. It is published under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
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| Developer | Wellington Wallace |
| Stable release | 8.0.0[1] 
/ 9 November 2025 |
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| Operating system | Unix-like |
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| Available in | 12 languages[2] |
List of languages Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish | |
| Type | Audio effect processor |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later[3] |
| Website | wwmm.github.io/easyeffects/ |
| Repository | github.com/wwmm/easyeffects |
EasyEffects (formerly known as PulseEffects) is a free and open-source Qt application for Unix-like systems which provides a large array of audio effects and filters to apply to input and output audio streams.[4][5]
The application originally used the Pulseaudio sound server as it allowed effects to be added to audio streams with ease,[6] however, now runs exclusively on the PipeWire sound server after a port in 2021.[7]
The application also switched to using the Qt toolkit in version v8.0.0.[8]
It is published under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.[3]
Overview
[edit]EasyEffects uses PipeWire 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.[9][10] All plugins have their own presets and can be applicable inside the suite rather than having to use a different mixer or executing a script from the command line.[6]
Available output effects are limiter, auto volume, compressor of dynamic range, filter, 30 bands parametric equalizer, bass enhancer, exciter, reverbation, crossfeed, delay, maximizer and spectrum analyzer. Available input effects are WebRTC, limiter, compressor, filter, equalizer, de-esser, reverbation, pitch shift and spectrum analyzer.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ "EasyEffects - Phoenix". 9 November 2025. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ^ "pulseeffects/LINGUAS at master · wwmm/pulseeffects". GitHub. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- ^ a b "pulseeffects/LICENSE.md at master · wwmm/pulseeffects". GitHub. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- ^ "LFX Hot Picks - PulseEffects". Linux Format. 29 August 2017. p. 52. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ How to vastly improve sound on Linux with EasyEffects
- ^ a b Morrison, Graham (2017). "FOSSPicks - Page: 1.3 » Linux Magazine". Linux Magazine (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ "Release 5.0.0". GitHub. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ^ wwmm. "easyeffects/CHANGELOG.md at v8.0.0 · wwmm/easyeffects". GitHub. Retrieved 2025-11-09.
- ^ López, Pablo (26 November 2018). "PulseEffects un procesador de audio para tu radio". Liberaturadio (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ a b Naranjo, David (25 June 2018). "Administra los efectos de sonido de PulseAudio con PulseEffects". Linux Adictos (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ TANNHAUSSER (23 May 2018). "PulseEffects: avanzado ecualizador y creador de efectos de audio". La mirante del replicante (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
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