The popular Easy Effects app swaps from GTK over to Qt, QML and Kirigami with a big new release

Originally known as PulseEffects, Easy Effects is an audio manipulation tool for Linux that provides many different useful effects and filters. Hold on a minute, this isn't a game? Correct! But, it's still an incredibly useful application for Linux, and can also be useful for anyone doing any recording and streaming on Linux!

A big new release has been put out with Easy Effects 8.0.0 that completely overhauls the interface, along with a built-in tray icon and menu. Not only that, the app is friendlier to smaller screens, some plugins saw a few improvements, there's bug fixes and more.

It's looking great on my Kubuntu desktop, might actually have to start messing around with it some more.

Changelog for Easy Effects 8.0.0:

• This is our first release using a combination of Qt, QML and Kirigami instead of gtk4. As a result our graphical interface went through major changes.
• Now we have a built-in tray icon and menu. Among other things the tray menu shows a list of most used input and output presets.
• Our window is now more friendly to small screens. As a result it is friendlier than before to tiling window managers too.
• EasyEffects now remembers the last used plugin or tab and restores them when the window is reopened.
• The previous global bypass button is now exposed as a [traditional] on/off button.
• Out presets menu became a presets window that now has a third tab dedicated for autoloading profiles.
• It is now possible to set a fallback autoloading profile. If the fallback is enabled the selected fallback preset is applied for any soundcard or microphone that does not have an autoloading profile.
• The preset autoloading tab shows the current routing of the selected input/output device.
• Presets can be renamed in our presets window.
• Presets backup can be made in our presets window.
• Our spectrum is now [drawn] by Qt Graphs. For now only Qt color presets are allowed but this may change in the future.
• We added more shortcuts as well as global shortcuts for the global effects on/off and the microphone monitor.
• Dry and wet controls were implemented for the convolver and pitch plugins.
• The pitch plugin now has a button that allows its history to be reset.
• The crystalizer plugin now has an adaptive intensity mode.
• Our echo canceller is now based on the webrtc library instead of speexdsp. This should improve echo cancellation quality for many users.
• Our manual is now displayed inside our window through WebEngineView. Yelp is not necessary anymore.
• The test signal tab now can generate pink noise.
• We added a configuration option that allows the microphone monitor output to be sent to the output effects pipeline input.
• We added a new Autogain parameter that allows the output level to be forced to zero when the input level is below the silence threshold.
• Improved compatibility with the latest Linux Studio Plugins releases.
• We are now able to show Calf Studio Plugins native window. This requires the calf package to be built with its native window.

Check it out on GitHub and install via Flathub.