PulseAudio AlternativesAudio Routers & Volume Control Tools like PulseAudio

PulseAudio is described as 'Sound server system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It integral part of all relevant modern Linux distributions and is used in various mobile devices, by multiple vendors' and is a Audio Router in the system & hardware category. There are six alternatives to PulseAudio for Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Linux Mobile. The best PulseAudio alternative is VB-Audio VoiceMeeter, which is free. Other great apps like PulseAudio are PipeWire, MIXLINE, AudioBus and Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.

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  1. Voicemeeter is Audio Mixer Application endowed with Virtual Audio Device used as Virtual I/O to mix and manage any audio sources from or to any audio devices or applications.

    41 VB-Audio VoiceMeeter alternatives

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    • Windows
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  2. PipeWire icon
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    PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK.

    7 PipeWire alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    MIXLINE is an audio mixing software that performs audio routing, mixing, and streaming. All bundled into a beautiful User Interface!.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  4. AudioBus icon
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    With Audiobus, the revolutionary new inter-app audio routing system, you can connect your Audiobus-compatible music apps together, just like virtual cables.

    20 AudioBus alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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  5. Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (known by the acronym ALSA) is a free and open source software framework that provides an API for device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  6. Virtual Cables creates multiple virtual playback and recording devices on Windows. Audio sent to a Virtual Cable speaker is buffered and made available through the matching Virtual Cable microphone.

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    • Windows
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