README.md
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6<strong>Giada - Your Hardcore Loop Machine</strong> | Official website: <a href="https://www.giadamusic.com">giadamusic.com</a> | <a href="https://github.com/monocasual/giada/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Continuous+integration%22"><img src="https://github.com/monocasual/giada/workflows/Continuous%20integration/badge.svg" alt="Build status"></a>
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9## What is Giada?
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11Giada is an open source, minimalistic and hardcore music production tool. Designed for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.
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14✦✦✦ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GiadaLoopMachine">See Giada in action!</a> ✦✦✦
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19## Main features
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21* Your sample player! Load samples from your crates and play them with a computer keyboard or a MIDI controller;
22* Your loop machine! Build your performance in real time by layering audio tracks or MIDI events, driven by the main sequencer;
23* Your song editor! Write songs from scratch or edit existing live recordings with the powerful Action Editor, for a fine-tuned control;
24* Your live recorder! Record sounds from the real world and MIDI events coming from external devices or other apps;
25* Your FX processor! Process samples or audio/MIDI input signals with VST instruments from your plug-ins collection;
26* Your MIDI controller! Control other software or synchronize physical MIDI devices by using Giada as a MIDI master sequencer.
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28### And more:
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30* Ultra-lightweight internal design;
31* multi-thread/multi-core support;
32* 32-bit floating point audio engine;
33* ALSA, JACK + Transport, CoreAudio, ASIO and DirectSound full support;
34* unlimited number of channels (optionally controllable via computer keyboard);
35* BPM and beat sync with sample-accurate loop engine;
36* MIDI output support, featuring custom [MIDI lightning messages](https://github.com/monocasual/giada-midimaps);
37* super-sleek, built-in Wave Editor for audio samples and Piano Roll editor for MIDI messages;
38* automatic quantizer;
39* portable project storage system, based on super-hackable JSON files;
40* support for all major uncompressed file formats;
41* test-driven development style supported by [Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/monocasual/giada) and [Catch](https://github.com/philsquared/Catch)
42* under a constant stage of development;
43* 100% open-source GPL v3.
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45## License
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47Giada is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
48Take a look at the COPYING file for further informations.
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50## Documentation
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52Docs are available online on [the official website](https://www.giadamusic.com/documentation-index).
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54Found 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.
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56## Build Giada from source
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58We do our best to make the compilation process as simple as possible. You can find all the information in the [official docs page](https://www.giadamusic.com/documentation-compiling-from-source).
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60Something went wrong? Try our new [Docker image](https://github.com/monocasual/giada-docker) for building and running Giada without hurdles.
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62## Bugs, requests and questions for non-developers
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64Feel free to ask anything on [our end-user forum](https://www.giadamusic.com/forum).
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66## Copyright
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68Giada is Copyright (C) 2010-2020 by Giovanni A. Zuliani | Monocasual Laboratories
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70Giada - 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.
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72Giada - 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.
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74You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Giada - Your Hardcore Loopmachine. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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