AQUA

Quick link to download latest release: https://github.com/h39s/AQUA/releases/latest/download/AQUAsetup.exe

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/44WDeRrr2d

Welcome to AQUA, a modern platform for audio equalization on Windows. Our current features include

• System-wide parametric audio equalization (through EqualizerAPO)
• AutoEQ integration (credit to Jaakko Pasanen and Ian Walton for their preset results for the Harman, IEF, and IEF with bass targets)
• Auto Pre-amp Gain to ensure your maximum gain never exceeds 0dB
• Saving/loading equalizer presets
• Graph visualizer for equalizer settings (between 10 Hz and 20 KHz)
• Up to 20 filters (+ preamp gain) with adjustable
  • Filter type (low shelf, peak, or high shelf)
  • Centre frequency (1 Hz - 20 KHz)
  • Gain (-30dB to 30dB)
  • Quality (0.01 - 100.00)

Please note that EqualizerAPO is a prerequisite for our application. We would love to get your feedback, address any bugs you encounter, and take any feature requests into consideration as we develop AQUA further, so please join our discord server to share your thoughts with us and stay tuned for more!

Getting Started

To get started using AQUA, it only takes two easy steps:

1. Install EqualizerAPO if you don't have it currently installed (and make sure you run configurator.exe included as a part of EqualizerAPO to install the required drivers for the devices you would like to EQ).
2. Download and run the executable AQUAsetup.exe from the latest release.

FAQ

By default, the Windows file system does not support case sensitive file names (i.e. you cannot have files/folders named AQUA and aqua in the same directory).

• On Windows 11, AQUA is able to enable case sensitivity specifically for our presets folder so users can save presets with case-sensitive names.
• On Windows 10, if you would like to enable this feature you will have to install WSL. You can do so by opening a PowerShell window as an administrator and running wsl --install.
  • If you have existing presets saved in AQUA, you will need to temporarily empty the presets folder (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\aqua\presets) before starting the app to enable case sensitivity. Your existing presets can then be copied back into the presets folder.
• On Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, case sensitive preset naming is not available.

Get In Touch

If you find any bugs, have any feature requests, or want to give us any kind of feedback, we'd love to hear it! Please join us in our discord to reach out and to keep up to date with new release information!

About the Developers

We are a group of university students in our final year. This is both a passion project and capstone endeavour for us. We will be actively developing the application for the next few months and aim to add graphic EQ manipulation, and full AutoEQ capabilities. Please note that we may not always be available to address your messages on discord as we are all full-time students.

Development Prerequisites

1. Install EqualizerAPO
2. Install Visual Studio 2022. Check "Desktop Development with C++"
3. Clone this repository
4. Run npm install in the project folder
   • May need to install latest node-gyp in npm (link)
   • When installing node-gyp, ensure msvs_version is set to 2022 in npm config

License

AQUA: System-wide parametric audio equalizer interface

Copyright (C) 2023 AQUA Dev Team

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.