Arctis Sound Manager
SteelSeries GG and Sonar are Windows-only. Arctis Sound Manager is the Linux application that replaces them: a parametric equalizer per channel, a Game / Chat / Media / Output mixer, a working ChatMix dial, spatial audio, and the headset’s own settings — sidetone, ANC, inactivity timeout, battery, OLED.
It is built on PipeWire and speaks to the headset over its USB protocol, so it needs neither Wine nor a vendor driver.
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Install
curl -fsSL https://loteran.github.io/Arctis-Sound-Manager/install.sh | bash
Detects your distribution and installs the native package — Arch, Fedora, Nobara, Debian, Ubuntu, Bazzite, SteamOS. Prefer running the commands yourself? They are on the project page.
Check your model on the supported devices page first: every headset is listed with its USB Product ID.
What it replaces
- SteelSeries headset on Linux — what works out of the box, what needs GG, and which headsets are supported.
- SteelSeries Sonar on Linux — what Sonar actually does, what is reproduced, and what is not.
- Arctis ChatMix on Linux — why the dial does nothing out of the box, and how it is made to work again.
By headset: Arctis Nova Pro Wireless · Arctis Nova 7 · Arctis 7
Documentation
- Supported devices — every supported headset, with its USB Product ID.
- Troubleshooting — no sound, ChatMix doing nothing, headset not recognised, the GUI failing to start.
- Video Clips — the opt-in screen recorder: installing it, removing it, and what its per-channel audio tracks are for.
- Device configuration file specs — how a headset is described in YAML, and what it takes to add a new one.
- D-Bus interface — the daemon’s D-Bus API, for scripting and integrations.
- Hardware questions — what to capture when a headset is not yet supported.
- Community stats — which headsets and distributions people actually run ASM on.
Community
- ASM Presets — browse and share community EQ presets.
- ASM Themes — browse and share colour themes, previewed on a miniature of the app.
- Discord — get help, share presets, report what works.
- Crowdin — help translate ASM into your language.
Arctis Sound Manager is free software, released under the GPL-3.0.