Your Hardcore Loop Machine.
Giada is an open source, minimalistic and hardcore music production tool. Designed for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.Giada is a loop machine.
Build your performance in real time by layering audio tracks or MIDI events, driven by the main sequencer.
1. Giada is a loop machine.
Build your performance in real time by layering audio tracks or MIDI events, driven by the main sequencer.
2. Giada is a sample player.
Load samples from your crates and play them with a computer keyboard or a MIDI controller.
3. Giada is a song editor.
Write songs from scratch or edit existing live recordings with the powerful Action Editor, for a fine-tuned control.
4. Giada is a live recorder.
Record sounds from the real world and MIDI events coming from external devices or other apps.
5. Giada is an FX processor.
Process samples or audio/MIDI input signals with VST instruments from your plug-ins collection.
6. Giada is a MIDI controller.
Control other software or synchronize physical MIDI devices by using Giada as a MIDI master sequencer.
Ultra-lightweight internal design;
multi-thread/multi-core support;
32-bit floating point audio engine;
ALSA, JACK + Transport, CoreAudio, ASIO and DirectSound full support;
unlimited number of channels (optionally controllable via computer keyboard);
BPM and beat sync with sample-accurate loop engine;
MIDI input and output support, featuring custom MIDI lightning messages;
super-sleek, built-in Wave Editor for audio samples and Piano Roll editor for MIDI messages;
automatic quantizer;
portable project storage system, based on super-hackable JSON files;
support for all major uncompressed file formats;
test-driven development style supported by GitHub Actions and Catch
under a constant stage of development;
100% open-source GPL v3.
Video Demos :
https://www.youtube.com/@GiadaLoopMachine/videos
Latest version
1.1.0, Hamadryad
Released on October 25, 2024
Changes in version 1.1.0
New ‚Channel Groups‘ feature;
Update FLTK library to latest master;
Update JUCE Framework to 8.0.1;
Lots of refactoring and code cleanups.
https://www.giadamusic.com/index#download
