Overview
Chromatic Conductor is a high-performance PipeWire session manager client designed to provide Linux creators, streamers, and power users with an intuitive, visual approach to audio routing. It models complex connection matrices as drag-and-drop patches, eliminating manual command-line wire setups.
The client integrates directly with the libpipewire client loop, reacting dynamically to device plugs/unplugs and application streams while allowing users to inject runtime DSP audio filter stages directly into audio links.
Core Features
Visual Patchbay
- Dynamic Node Discovery: Discovers hardware inputs, sound cards, software sinks, and running player applications in real-time.
- Drag-to-Route Interface: Create audio links instantly by drawing wires between input ports and output nodes.
- Per-Link Level Tuning: Select any active link to control its specific volume directly from the control panel.
- Virtual Sink Manager: Create and persist null audio targets (virtual sinks) to route specific desktop apps separately.
Per-Link DSP Sound Profiles
Apply real-time saturation and tilt filtering on individual links with predefined profiles:
- Clean: Unmodified, low-overhead pass-through signal.
- Warm: Adds gentle harmonic saturation and low-frequency weight to enrich vocals.
- Punch: Aggressive preamp modeling and compression-like saturation for drum tracks or game feeds.
- Bright: Boosts presence and high-mid ranges for speech clarity.
Persistence & Diagnostics
- Auto-saves connection structures using
QSettingsto restore virtual outputs and link routings across server reboots. - Robust diagnostics panel showing restoration states, missed endpoints, and current audio memory consumption.
Build and Installation
To compile Chromatic Conductor, install the required development headers for Qt6 and Pipewire:
Ubuntu / Debian (22.04+):
Build from Source: