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
This release introduces a major overhaul of Giada's timing and sequencing engine, with a new tick-based internal timeline that improves musical precision across editing and playback. It also improves plug-in and MIDI workflow, adds CPU load monitoring to the main window and includes a broad round of internal cleanup and UI polish.
- New tick-based audio rendering engine, improving consistency across sequencing, playback and action editing;
- Rework the internal storage of actions, improving performance and simplifying action handling;
- Allow plug-ins that generate MIDI to forward their output to subsequent plug-ins;
- Improve transport and position reporting for plug-ins;
- Add CPU load meter in the main window, along with a new footer area with extra information;
- Fix audio glitches while saving a project;
- Fix wrong sample range points computation when the system sample rate changes;
- Include broader internal cleanup, refactoring, dependency updates and UI polish.
