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Your Hardcore Loop Machine.
https://github.com/monocasual/giada

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	Giada - Your Hardcore Loop Machine






Giada - Your Hardcore Loop Machine | Official website: giadamusic.com | Build status




## What is Giada?



Giada is an open source, minimalistic and hardcore music production tool. Designed for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.





✦✦✦ See Giada in action! ✦✦✦




![Giada Loop Machine screenshot](https://giadamusic.com/images/giada-canvas.png)



## Main features



* Giada is a loop machine — build your performance in real time by layering audio tracks or MIDI events, driven by the main sequencer;

* Giada is a sample player — load samples from your crates and play them with a computer keyboard or a MIDI controller;

* Giada is a song editor — write songs from scratch or edit existing live recordings with the powerful Action Editor, for a fine-tuned control;

* Giada is a live recorder — record sounds from the real world and MIDI events coming from external devices or other apps;

* Giada is an FX processor — process samples or audio/MIDI input signals with VST instruments from your plug-ins collection;

* Giada is a MIDI controller — control other software or synchronize physical MIDI devices by using Giada as a MIDI master sequencer.



### And more:



* 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](https://github.com/monocasual/giada-midimaps);

* 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](https://github.com/monocasual/giada/actions) and [Catch](https://github.com/philsquared/Catch)

* under a constant stage of development;

* 100% open-source GPL v3.



## License



Giada is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Take a look at the COPYING file for further information.



## Documentation



Documentation is available online in the [user guide page](https://www.giadamusic.com/documentation-index).



An ever-growing collection of tutorials (both text and video) and live demos is available in the [tutorials & media page](https://www.giadamusic.com/media).



Found a typo or a terrible mistake? Feel free to clone the [website repository](https://github.com/monocasual/giada-www) and send us your pull requests.



## Build Giada from source



We do our best to make the compilation process as simple as possible. You can find all the information in the [compiling from source](https://www.giadamusic.com/documentation-compiling-from-source) chapter from the user guide.



## Bugs, requests and questions for non-developers



Feel free to ask anything in the [discussions area](https://github.com/monocasual/giada/discussions).



## Copyright



Giada is Copyright (C) 2010-2024 by Giovanni A. Zuliani | Monocasual Laboratories



Giada - Your Hardcore Loopmachine is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.



Giada - Your Hardcore Loopmachine is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.



You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Giada - Your Hardcore Loopmachine. If not, see .