Welcome

Jackbeat is an audio sequencer running on Linux and Mac OS X, for musicians and sound artists:

• Drummachine interface with accurate VU meters for easy editing
• Live operation: while playing, the sequence can be edited and resized, the bpm rate modified, and new samples loaded,
• Easy to use and yet powerful : just JACK it into jack-rack and you can apply LADSPA effect plugins on a per track basis, perform mastering with jackeq , etc...
• Loads and saves .jab files, Jackbeat's file format, based on xml and packed with tar,
• Unique Masking feature: allows to insert silences into a a given track in an interactive manner.

Resources

MusicExamples: listen to music made with Jackbeat, download .jab sources and drum kits

BasicUsage: get started, learn how to find your way in Jackbeat

UserSupport: get help about using, installing or hacking Jackbeat

LicenseTerms: Jackbeat is libre software, licensed under the GPL

Download: get and install Jackbeat

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