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Your hardcore loop machine.

Giada is an open source, minimalistic and hardcore music production tool. Designed for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.

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see it in action!

*Your sample player

Load samples from your crates and play them with a computer keyboard or a MIDI controller.

*Your loop machine

Build your performance in real time by layering audio tracks or MIDI events, driven by the main sequencer.

*Your song editor

Write songs from scratch or edit existing live recordings with the powerful Action Editor, for a fine-tuned control.

*Your live recorder

Record sounds from the real world and MIDI events coming from external devices or other apps.

*Your FX processor

Process samples or audio/MIDI input signals with VST instruments from your plug-ins collection.

*Your MIDI controller

Control other software or synchronize physical MIDI devices by using Giada as a MIDI master sequencer.

Lightweight and powerful

VST and MIDI support

Designed for live performances

Powerful multi-threaded audio engine

Super sleek interface, no exotic stuff

Tons of tools to edit your songs

100% open-source GPL

For Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD

“This software is f*cking awesome.”― Cinderskull27

“Giada is one of the best open platform audio tool out there.”― blinkworth1

“Discovering Giada has completely changed my life.”― D1RTY J0E

latest version: 0.17.0 “Chupacabra”

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Latest news from our laboratories.

Slow Winter – Giada live demo #5

December 10, 2020 ―

Quick loop made with Giada 0.17.1 (development version) and our new AKAI MPD218. What you see here is Giada fully controlled with a MIDI device... except for the 'solo' button at 00:36 :D

Giada 0.17.0 “Chupacabra” released

November 16, 2020 ―

A new version of Giada has been released yesterday, named after the dangerous creature that attacks and drinks the blood of livestock, including goats. What's new in this version:

  • VST3 support — yes, VST3 has finally landed, along with a better persistence mechanism for plug-ins state. On Mac, Linux and Windows of course;

  • CMake build system — we finally switched to a modern build system for compiling Giada from source. The previous Autotools machinery is now deprecated and will be removed soon. Don't use it!

  • several UI beautifications and improvements such as the ability to resize the Plug-in List Window and a parameters cleanup in the Sample Editor;

  • many bugs fixed and source code optimizations.

A warm kiss goes out to all the supporters who helped us with the release. As always, the full changelog is available in the download area. Have fun with Giada 0.17.0 and remember to keep your animals safe from the chupacabra!

Waterlord – Giada live demo #4

October 26, 2020 ―

Dark beats on a sunny Saturday... with Giada Loop Machine 0.17.0 (development version), 100% laptop keyboard only!

Giada 0.16.4 “Baba Yaga” is ready

September 26, 2020 ―

Say hello to Giada 0.16.4 codename Baba Yaga, the last version in the 0.16 branch. This new release features many improvements and annoying bugs fixed. To name a few:

  • Support for mono inputs ― you can finally record from your mono inputs, no need for mandatory stereo channels anymore!
  • improved overdub mode for Sample Channels, featuring Overdub protection mode to avoid dangerous overwrites.

We have also fixed several errors regarding sample rate conversion and improved the UI interaction. As always the full changelog is available in the download area. A big "Thank You" to all supporters, developers and hackers who helped us with the release of Giada 0.16.4. Get ready for the 0.17 branch!

Giada 0.16.3 codename “Talisman” released

June 21, 2020 ―

A new version of Giada Loop Machine is ready for your desktop! This release features an important refactoring of the internal channel architecture. Such improvement will make easier for us to extend Giada with new channel-related features in view of the upcoming 1.0 release. And also:

  • Big CPU usage optimization when playing with lots of sample/MIDI channels;
  • a better, sample-precise quantizer;
  • simplified logic when halting channels containing pre-recorded actions;
  • many bugs fixed, specially the number of BPM not changing when using Jack on Linux.

The full changelog is available in the download area. Have fun and stay safe!