Arctis Sound Manager

Arctis Nova Pro Wireless on Linux

The Nova Pro Wireless is the headset that loses the most without SteelSeries GG. Plugged into Linux, the base station is a sound card and nothing more: the headset plays and the microphone records, but the screen on the base station shows its own menus only, the ChatMix dial balances nothing, and none of the settings GG exposes can be reached from the desktop.

Arctis Sound Manager (ASM) talks to the base station over its own USB protocol and gives all of that back, natively — no Wine, no vendor driver.

What you get

Headset and microphone

• Headset gain (low / high)
• Microphone volume, sidetone and mute-LED brightness
• Noise cancelling / transparency mode, shown live as you switch it with the headset’s button
• Auto-off timer
• Battery level of the headset and of the spare battery charging in the base station

Base station

• The OLED screen: keep the original display or build your own from the time, battery, profile, EQ preset and weather, with brightness, timeout and font size
• The line out (the AUX output on the back), with its own volume — useful when speakers hang off the base station
• Wireless mode, and Bluetooth: power and behaviour on an incoming call

Audio, on PipeWire

• Game / Chat / Media / Output channels as real sound devices, with a mixer and automatic routing of applications
• ChatMix: the dial on the base station balances Game against Chat — see Arctis ChatMix on Linux
• A Sonar-style equalizer per channel, with GG’s game presets — see SteelSeries Sonar on Linux
• Spatial audio through HRIR convolution
• Microphone noise suppression, noise gate and compressor

Which models

Every Nova Pro Wireless variant is recognised: the original (USB ID 1038:12e0), the Xbox edition Nova Pro Wireless X (1038:12e5) and its later revision (1038:225d). The wired Nova Pro and the Nova Pro Omni have their own profiles; the supported devices page lists every model.

To check which one you have:

lsusb | grep 1038

Getting it

curl -fsSL https://loteran.github.io/Arctis-Sound-Manager/install.sh | bash

The script detects your distribution and installs the native package — Arch, Fedora, Nobara, Debian, Ubuntu, Bazzite and SteamOS are covered. The project page has the per-distribution commands.

Something not working? The troubleshooting page covers the common cases.

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