My Hesuvi Configuration on Linux

In this guide I will show how to setup Hesuvi (Virtual 7.1 Surround Sound) in Linux using PipeWire. On Windows I’m using HeSuVi for sound virtualization, so I’m decided to configure on Linux too.

Check your audio driver

First, we need to check if we already running PipeWire as our audio driver. To do that we need to run next command:

pactl info | grep "Server Name"

If you already running PipeWire, then jump over installation process.

Ubuntu

• Add the PipeWire PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream

• Install the PipeWire

sudo apt update
sudo apt install pipewire pipewire-audio-client-libraries

• It is also recommended that you install some additional libraries if you are using Bluetooth, GStreamer, or JACK

sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-pipewire libpipewire-0.3-{0,dev,modules} libspa-0.2-{bluetooth,dev,jack,modules} pipewire{,-{audio-client-libraries,pulse,media-session,bin,locales,tests}}

• Run the following command to reload the daemon in systemd, disable PulseAudio and enable PipeWire

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user --now stop pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user --now enable pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service
systemctl --user --now start pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service

Arch

• Install the PipeWire

sudo pacman -S pipewire

• It is also recommended that you install some additional libraries if you are using Bluetooth, GStreamer, or JACK, ALSA

sudo pacman -S pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse wireplumber

• Run the following command to reload the daemon in systemd, disable PulseAudio and enable PipeWire

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user --now stop pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user --now enable pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service wireplumber
systemctl --user --now start pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service wireplumber

Virtual surround sound configuration

• In $HOME/.config/ make pipewire directory
• Copy pipewire.conf from /usr/share/pipewire/ to .config/
• Check HRTF Database
  https://airtable.com/appayGNkn3nSuXkaz/shruimhjdSakUPg2m/tbloLjoZKWJDnLtTc
  Choose your favourite sound profile and download .wav in .config/
• Check pipewire configuration
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Filter-Chain#draining

My configuration:

https://github.com/vukilis/UltimateSetup/tree/main/dotfiles/.config/pipewire