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 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 and MIDI support

Giada can load VST and VST instruments, as well as read/write MIDI messages from/to any device out there, both hardware and software.

* 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!

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Latest News

December 08, 2013 ― Giada Loop Machine 0.8.1 ― Giada 0.8.1, codename Jack Sparrow is finally ready for download. Main new features:

  • new high quality pitch control, based on libsamplerate;
  • spread sample to bar, spread sample to song functions.

We also want to welcome a new section of giadamusic.com in which we store our beloved source code, plus the Flattr button up here.

November 03, 2013 ― Giada Loop Machine 0.8.0 ― Giada 0.8.0, codename benzoyl peroxide is out today, introducing a long-awaited (by us, at least) feature: initial MIDI input support! The release also fixes many annoying bugs and introduces some minor improvements.

October 16, 2013 ― Autumnal news part 2 ― While MIDI input development goes on smoothly on GitHub, we are pleased to recommend you another thrilling demo video called "The Beauty", plus a in-depth review of Giada 0.7.3 on Leo Cabrera's blog (Spanish only, but Google Translate is your friend).

September 28, 2013 ― Autumnal news ― Giada is ready to face the dark seasons on the horizon (at least in this hemisphere) with some interesting news: new demo video "Dubteque" available on Youtube, completely revised and enhanced documentation and a new official profile on Google+ network.

September 16, 2013 ― Giada Loop Machine 0.7.3 out today ― Giada 0.7.3, codename klickibunti is finally available! Here's the list of the unbelievable features:

  • experimental 64 bit version for Linux;
  • many many improvements in the Piano Roll tool;
  • massive internal cleanup - Giada is now ready for future development;
  • copious bugs fixed and minor improvements.

This version will probably be the last one in the 0.7 adventure. A big thanks to all of our friends/supporters!

Our latest commits @ GitHub

December 05, 2013 ― Fix issue with mute on-off

December 05, 2013 ― Temorary remove mute xfades

December 05, 2013 ― Take into account sample::end when resampling with libsamplerate

December 05, 2013 ― Implement 'spread to bar' and 'spread to song' features

December 05, 2013 ― Add new buttons to sample editor + general restyling

December 05, 2013 ― More debug output removed

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