So I am finally putting in the effort to move over my music production suite to my linux PC, and genuinely this is just better than windows audio. The only thing I have not been able to replicate is how ASIO would bypass system volume.
This was useful because it allowed me to keep my audio workflow and everything else balanced seperately.
It was also really useful in foobar2000 (now replaced with the much nicer fooyin) because of replay gain. Replay gain would keep each song in the same loudness range allowing me to set my desired volume with my audio interfaces physical knob.
Now if I want to replicate this workflow I need to max out the system volume which removes the ability to quickly equalize the two workflows.
I hope I described this in an understandable way.
I use Fedora KDE 44 with the audio group installed (so jack and pipewire)
AFAIK the "right" way to do this is use a virtual device for system audio, and have that in turn output to the actual audio interface, so you can keep it maxed out.
But that doesn't really feel like the ideal solution.
That said I'm probably missing something. EasyEffects is able to process audio in ways that should enable what you're asking for, I just don't know how.
Also, if you haven't already, check out qpwgraph. It's a virtual patch bay for routing audio around however you want.
Best part, is it's not an add-on, really. It's just a GUI for capabilities that pipewire already has.
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