Peace Equalizer shows power of AutoIt

[PeterVerbeek]

In this post I take the opportunity to show the awesome capabilities of AutoIt and its libraries. My open source project Peace is a long running AutoIt based app located on SourceForge. It provides users with a system-wide equalizer and effects machine. It's an interface using the power of Equalizer APO, an audio processing object software. Peace has been download over 2,600,000 times by various kind of users. Amongst others it gives them possibilities like these:

• Hearing impaired - Amplify the gain of frequencies which are impaired.
• Home Theatre - Create Equalizer presets for watching movies and listening to music.
• Music lovers & audiophiles - Create presets for listening to music on their high quality speakers and headphones.
• Gamers - Enhance frequencies to get an edge over other gamers.
• Headphones - Improve the sound quality of cheap headphones and get the max out of expensive ones.
• Bass lovers - Boost low frequencies for extra bass.
• Voice - Make a microphone sound better and improve the voice, for instance for YouTube usage.
• Low audio - Boost low audio of an input source to a comfortable level.

This list covers the main needs of the Peace user. Many people have contacted me over the years asking for new features and telling me how they use Peace for their (sometimes specific) needs.  I was able to use AutoIt and its libraries for all of their needs. So what are the main features of Peace?

• Equalize your computer audio by using up to 31 sliders.
• Support of equalizing 9 speakers : left/right, center, subwoofer, left/right rear, left/right side.
• Per slider a filter can be chosen such as peak, low/high pass, shelving.
• The graph windows shows your equalization so you see exactly what you're doing.
• Apply an effect such as crossfeed simple/Jan Meier/Chu Moy, stereo balance, bass/treble, upmix/downmix, channel routing.
• Save presets (called configurations) and activate by mouse click, hotkey, desktop shortcut or Peace system tray.
• Select a target device to equalize, microphone as input can also be equalized.
• Automate: you can let Peace automatically activate presets on a switch to another device and another process.
• Peace is available in these languages: English, Czech, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Pусский, Українська

So who am I? I'm a Dutch programmer who happens the stumble upon AutoIt 5 years ago and created a small Equalizer interface app of less than 400 program lines with it. Nowadays Peace has grown to more than 18,000 lines as many features were added. Although Peace is open source, the program code isn't of the best possible quality. The reason being that I didn't expect it to become so popular. It caught me by supprise. I've created a Library of functions called Pal (link to forum post) which quality is up to the AutoIt community standard as counterpart to the Peace program code.

I want to state here that AutoIt is a mature program language as Peace obviously shows. I wish it to be used more extensively for professional or semi-professional apps. In my view AutoIt deserves a place amongst the major programming languages for Windows computers.

Regards,

Peter Verbeek

Edited February 21, 2021 by PeterVerbeek
Release new version 1.5.6.4

[moosjuice]

Wow. I'm currently using Peace (just to reverse the channels resulting from an otherwise fine Y connector) and had no idea it was made outside of the huge libraries and compatibility of the Comp Sci classes.

[PeterVerbeek]

What are the Comp Sci classes?

[mLipok]

Is there support for multi lingual, GUI Internationalization / Translation ?

btw.
Thanks for this link ... and  to the forum.

Edited June 12, 2019 by mLipok

[PeterVerbeek]

Thanks for welcoming me 😃

Yes, well not to the fullest extend. Any language can be used but it has to be a language from left to right, not from top to bottom like Chinese. I've incorporate a small translate window so people can easily translate from one language to another. Currently Peace has 8 languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian. It's all voluntary work but much appreciated by the Peace community.

I've learnt c# and .net but somehow I find it less productive due to the complexity. My built-in language support is simply based on a text array and it fits the bill. Also Peace has support for themes but not all is possible. For instance buttons are always Windows ones. That's great about WPF and Visual Studio.

[Miliardsto]

great work man

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@PeterVerbeek

Very interesting and nice work! Well done

[PeterVerbeek]

@Milliardsto and and @FrancescoDiMuro Thanks. I hope it advertises the power AutoIt.

[czardas]

This looks fantastic. I haven't time to test it right now, but I will do soon. Mooi!

[PeterVerbeek]

czardas, thanks for the compliment. Dank je.

[Jos]

  On 6/13/2019 at 8:06 AM, PeterVerbeek said:

Dank je.

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mmm ... another "dutchie"  

[dmob]

Very nice

[jchd]

Pretty good job!

[PeterVerbeek]

@Jos Jep, Dutchies like AutoIt. It's in their nature😉, though I don't know why 🤔. Enlighten me.

@dmob and @jchd Thanks guys!

[PeterVerbeek]

As this topic is meant to showcase the power of AutoIt, I'm wondering what to put in this topic. Any ideas?

I could put the change log in the post but it's very long. By now Peace has been updated almost 50 times. The only thing the change log makes clear it's an on-going project.

[argumentum]

Edited June 13, 2019 by argumentum
served it's purpose

[Jos]

  On 6/13/2019 at 4:08 PM, PeterVerbeek said:

@Jos Jep, Dutchies like AutoIt. It's in their nature😉, though I don't know why 🤔. Enlighten me.

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That's easy: We're cheap lazy bastards so we use the free great tools to get our stuff done for us.  

Seriously: I am was using it "ages" ago for automating repetitive  tasks and some major global unattended software rollouts.... and somehow like the abuse I get around here. 🙂 

Jos

[PeterVerbeek]

@argumentum This button shouldn't be hidden when Equalizer APO isn't installed yet. Many thanks for pointing to this bug. I've corrected it.

[PeterVerbeek]

  On 6/13/2019 at 5:03 PM, Jos said:

That's easy: We're cheap lazy bastards so we use the free great tools to get our stuff done for us.  

Seriously: I am was using it "ages" ago for automating repetitive  tasks and some major global unattended software rollouts.... and somehow like the abuse I get around here. 🙂

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🤣 So true.

Actually, I did use AutoIt because I was a bit lazy to learn Visual Studio, c#, .net and WPF. You see where it brought me. My project got a bit out of hand.🙄

[OSMMDAIJI]

Great Interface