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

  • Main Menu redesign with macOS support;
  • Main Window I/O redesign with vertical audio meters;
  • Show beat number in Main Sequencer;
  • Redesigned Column menu with improved usability;
  • New Velocity Editor widget in Sample Channel Action Editor;
  • Recursive buffer rendering implementation;
  • Let Giada pick a default audio device if not specified;
  • Send MIDI data through armed channels to the outside world;
  • [Linux] Remove duplicated .desktop file generation;
  • [Linux] Update metainfo.xml file;
  • Optimize audio preview rendering: enable it only when Sample Editor is open;
  • Improved zoom with mouse wheel in Sample Editor and Action Editor;
  • Fix some Sample Editor operations not working correctly;
  • Fix grid not showing up correctly in Sample Editor;
  • Fix inability to quit record-on-signal mode;
  • Fix Record-on-signal mode not deactivated after recording audio;
  • Refactoring and code cleanup.