How does it work? Just pick up your sample, drop it in any channel and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler or yet as an effect (VST) host. Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows for production use and live sets.
lots of useful tools
Tweak your sounds with the live sampler from external sources, the live quantizer, a built-in wave editor, the action recorder and the action editor.
vst plugin support
An experimental feature which transforms Giada into a native VST host. Plugin support for Linux, Windows and OS X, of course.
lightweight and powerful
32 bit floating point audio engine, sample-accurate looping system, multithread support. 100% exotic dependencies free.
100% open-source GPL
Giada is constantly under development, free for use and distribution: you can use it without any limitations. Help us to improve it more!
What's New
- Enabled realtime scheduling in audio callback;
- Input audio meter is now affected by the current input volume value;
- Improved file name validation when saving projects and samples;
- Fix compilation with format-security compiler flags;
- Disable metronome when recording in free-loop-length mode;
- Improved robustness of audio channel selection when changing audio devices in the configuration panel;
- Upgrade libsndfile library to version 1.2.0;
- Upgrade nlohmann-json library to version 3.11.2;
- Upgrade fmt library to version 10.0.0;
- Lots of code refactoring and internal cleanups.
Previous Release Notes:
- New MIDI I/O activity LEDs on channels (#143)
- New "Missing Assets" alert window (#344)
- Many smaller improvements and cleanups in UI code
- Add ability to sort installed plug-ins by Format (VST, VST3, ...)
- Update JUCE to 6.1.5
- Update custom RtAudio submodule (now pointing to 6.0.0beta1)
- Optimize internal buffer Giada <-> JUCE conversion
- Remove old plug-in parameter storage used in old patches
- Fix deadlock when using JACK transport
- Fix Action Editor grid refresh when changing BPM while the editor window is open (#547)
- Fix plug-in clone operation while cloning a channel (#551)