Giada is a free sequencer and drum machine and looper stand alone application developed by Monocasual Laboratories. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.
Giada is a free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians. How does it work? Just pick up your channel, fill it with samples or MIDI events and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler or yet as a plugin/effect host. Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for Linux, Mac and Windows for production use and live sets.
Features:
- Ultra-lightweight internal design;
- multi-thread/multi-core support;
- 32-bit floating point audio engine;
- ALSA, JACK + Transport, CoreAudio, ASIO and DirectSound full support;
- high quality internal resampler;
- unlimited number of channels (controllable via computer keyboard);
- several playback modes and combinations;
- BPM and beat sync with sample-accurate loop engine;
- VST and VSTi (instrument) plugin support;
- MIDI input and output support, featuring custom MIDI lightning messages;
- super-sleek, built-in wave editor;
- live sampler from external inputs;
- live action recorder with automatic quantizer;
- piano Roll editor;
- portable patch storage system, based on super-hackable JSON files;
- support for all major uncompressed file formats;
- test-driven development style supported by Travis CI and Catch;
- under a constant stage of development;
- 100% open-source GPL v3, hosted on GitHub.
https://www.monocasual.com/
