Giada is an open source, minimalistic and hardcore music production tool. Designed for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.
Giada is in a constant stage of development and may lack of some functionalities which could make it hard to use. Please see the milestones to understand the direction of development. Giada is obviously full of bugs, too. So you are welcome to join our forum and submit any malfunction or suggestion.
If you want to collaborate with this project, join us on GitHub.
Giada is available on Windows, macOS and Linux. We provide binaries for Windows and macOS only. More specifically:
on Windows, x64 — Windows Vista or greater is required;
on macOS, 64-bit Intel — macOS Sierra 10.14 or greater is required;
on Linux — Giada is distributed as a Flatpak package via the Flathub App Store.
You can also build Giada from source. More information in the Compiling from source page.
on Windows and macOS — Go to the Download area, grab the package for your operating system, unzip it if required. Then, double-click on the program icon to start Giada;
on Linux — follow the instructions in the Giada @ Flathub page.
Giada saves its configuration in a file called giada.conf, generated somewhere in your filesystem:
Linux — /home/(your_user)/.config/Giada/giada.conf;
macOS — /Users/(your_user)/Library/Application Support/Giada/giada.conf;
Windows — C:\Users\(your_user)\AppData\Giada\giada.conf.
If you accidentally delete or alter it, the default setup will be used. This file is restored the next time you quit the program.
The Flatpak package should just work out of the box. However for the absolute, best, top-notch experience you should also try binaries shipped by the package manager of your favorite distribution. Giada is available on Debian, Ubuntu and many more.
The macOS package we currently provide is not signed, which makes the OS quite unhappy. So if Giada doesn't start when double-clicked, try to remove the "quarantine flag" by running these instructions. Additionaly, macOS Gatekeeper might get in the way: follow these instructions to disable it.