Hi linux folks I’m considering installing linux as dual boot on a second partition and want to achieve the same audio setup I have on Windows using software to get better quality audio than defualt Windows audio
The setup is:
Audio > Vb-Audio Hifi Cable Input > Vb-Audio Hifi Cable Output > VST host with plug-ins for equalisation > Voicemeeter Virtual ASIO Input > Voicemeeter WASAPI output to headphones with equaliser apo eq on the voicemeeter output for hesuvi virtual surround sound
I have tried searching online and have only become aware of ALSA but not how to implement the setup I have above and I’d rather it not go through port audio because I heard it messes with audio quality
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Check out Pipewire, which is the modern standard of linux audio
I do not have the same requirements than you, but in audio production I can route anything in any which way I need (useful for switching monitoring or sources), and I did once plug an eq to my movie player because some ripped movie was really sounding bad
There are tons of VSTs available, too
There’ll be research to do, and a learning curve, but today is not the days of Jack anymore, it has become really easy if you go for a modern distro (arch, tumbleweed, fedora,…)
Have fun running your sound your way!
Pipewire has built in EQ support (no GUI, but useful once you’ve chosen your settings), and you can use EasyEffects for a GUI to experiment with.
Pipewire also supports complex multichannel impulse responses (including the same files that Hesuvi supports if you supply them). Both of these are a bit challenging to configure it should be said, but it’s nice they they are just effectively outputs you can connect to once they are setup, and don’t require a bunch of programs running at once.
Here’s the official example for virtual sound with “hesuvi”: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/blob/master/src/daemon/filter-chain/sink-virtual-surround-7.1-hesuvi.conf
I’ve had issues with relative paths in the past for the filenames, so try setting a full path if it doesn’t work.
And here’s an example for EQ (you can add more channels if you need them): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/blob/master/src/daemon/filter-chain/sink-eq6.conf
You can also add a preamp if your EQ needs that which is just essentially a 0.0 freq, 0 Q filter and then you set the gain that you need. I didn’t need it as I’m not using external amps for any of my pipewire EQs.
One more thing I’ll add is that if you want the effect to also connect to a specific output (maybe your headphone EQ goes to one output, and your speaker EQ goes to a different one) you can set
target.object=<your hardware output>in playback.props section. There’s an even better solution in wireplumber 0.5.X but I haven’t tried it yet and it might not be available on your system. Read this Collabora article if you’re interested.Don’t want to use ubuntu as I’ve heard it amd linux mint has a habit of touching other EFI partitions even when being told not to but ill have a look at the individual software mentioned
The only “touching of other EFI partitions” that they do that I know-of, is that every time there’s a kernel-update, it updates GRUB, which requires a re-scan of all partitions, so it can get the bootable-systems listed in GRUB…
that doesn’t mean Ubuntu isn’t doing other things, it’s only saying that that’s all I’ve noticed it to do…
