EasyEffects Has Switched to Qt—Fantastic!

Nice! I just noticed that EasyEffects has transitioned to the Qt toolkit — love it! :heart_eyes:

Well, that is annoying…I don’t use anything Qt based on my system (I’m on Gentoo, I really don’t want to emerge Qt). Hopefully the GTK version will hang around for a while.

Looks like it’s now under the gtk4-legacy branch.

Awesome. Although it being a kirigami app will probably frustrate non-KDE users who like integrated theming. However, as a KDE user, I love it.

Doesn’t look like it.

Doesn’t look maintained though.

Oh well. Looks like no EasyEffects for me :frowning:

yeah it’s great. an upgrade for sure but it’s a bit annoying how many kde dependencies it has now.

you can just use 7.2.5 it still works fine.

edit: sry for double post

does that say it is not taking kvantum, theming too?

kvantum theming might work in KDE but probably not outside KDE. Would need testing. IIRC, KDE has some special enhancements to make QML work with it.

seems on like sway it will ignore everything and use internal theming somhow, i can only set darkmode nothing from kvantum works but lets see..

That’s the plan. Especially considering the amount of effort it took to get it setup and sounding just right.

This app was recommended somewhere as replacement for the windows app “nahimic” which my laptop used to use. Might look into this.

Well, well, well… this looks interesting. I’m not familiar with EasyEffects at all. Didn’t even know it existed. I’ll need to investigate.

Well, the good thing is that my existing presets from the GTK4 version still work in the new version.

I only used easyeffects to apply a fixed parametric EQ and as easyeffects essentially only provides a less convoluted UI to the linux studio plugin - which is also directly supported in pipewires filter chain module via LADSPA, I recently removed easy effects as the “man in the middle”, so to say.

For me the preamp config is screwed up for some of them. Also auto profiles seems to no longer be a thing.

And yeah if all you want is an equalizer, easyeffects is overkill. I use bass enhancer and crystalizer too.

I just use equalizer and bass enhancer. For me, I like Easyeffects because I can set the sound effect at system level. Listening music in youtube without equalizer sounds a bit incomplete to my ear even though I’m not an audiophile.

Good to know thank you. I’ll look into this further. I might need to borrow your pipewire configs to understand it a little clearer if you’re willing to share?

I don’t care much if they use QT, but after seeing all the KDE dependencies, I will keep JamesDSP.

Pipewire already ships with several drop-in configuration file examples for filter chain modules as virtual sinks, check /usr/share/pipewire as well as the filter-chain subdirectory.

That might be more helpful than the actual filter that I’m currently using. As it is a room correction equalization that is specific to my audio setup, and it is just a customized version of the sink-eq6.conf found in /usr/share/pipewire/filter-chain which they propose to put into ~/.config/pipewire/filter-chain.conf.d/