After four and a half years of development the release of an open-source project , within which a cross-platform alternative to commercial software for music production, similar to FL Studio and GarageBand, is being developed. The project's code is written in C++ (with a Qt interface) and is licensed under GPLv2. Ready builds for Linux (in AppImage format), macOS, and Windows.
The program combines the features of a digital audio workstation (DAW) with a set of editors for creating musical material, such as a beat editor, a track editor, a piano roll editor for MIDI keyboard recording, and a song editor for compiling materials into a comprehensive view. It includes a 64-channel audio effect mixer with support for connecting plugins in SoundFont2, LADSPA, and VST formats. It provides 16 built-in synthesizers, including emulators of Roland TB-303, Commodore 64 SID, Nintendo NES, GameBoy, and Yamaha OPL2, as well as the built-in synthesizer . Support for multisampling for SoundFont (SF2), Giga (GIG), and Gravis UltraSound (GUS) formats is provided.
Among the added improvements:
- Support for building for OpenBSD (sndio) and Haiku (BeOS);
- The ability to save music as (-l and --loop options);
- Support for Apple MIDI;
- The ability to export in MIDI format and improved MIDI import;
- Support for exporting 24-bit WAV, MP3, and OGG with variable bitrate;
- Memory management code has been rewritten;
- Auto-save functionality during playback;
- Plugins and patches have been moved to a separate directory;
- Improved operation on high pixel density screens;
- A new audio backend based on SDL has been applied in new installations by default;
- A 'solo' mode and the ability to clean unused channels have been added in the FX Mixer;
- A new Gig Player tool for playing Giga Sample Banks files;
- A new ReverbSC plugin;
- New FX plugins: Equalizer, Bitcrush, Crossover EQ, and Multitap Echo;
- Numerous improvements to the user interface, including a new theme, support for dragging and dropping tracks, the ability to select ranges, copy/move groups, and support for horizontal scrolling with the mouse wheel in the editor.
The design of the Delay, Dynamics Processor, Dual Filter, and Bitcrush plugins has been revamped.
Source: opennet.ru
