Jackbeat is an audio sequencer, a Linux tool for musicians and sound artists :

• drummachine-like interface for fast and easy editing
• realtime operation : while playing, the sequence can be edited and resized, the bpm rate modified, and new samples loaded,
• virtually unlimited number of tracks and beats
• 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 with precision into a given track.

A 6x32 Jackbeat session, featuring the Smooth Peachy Clean GTK2 theme

And another screenshot from Guillaume Pellerin.

• Smooth by Olivier Guilyardi (This is what the screenshot above sounds like) : smooth.mp3 (1082k) - source: smooth.jab (180k)
• I want to leave high by Guillaume Pellerin (Needs playing with the Mute buttons) - source : iwanttoleavehigh3.jab (6.8M)
• Made music with jackbeat ? Please send it over.

Latest release (README, ChangeLog), source package :

• jackbeat-0.5.2.tar.gz (316k, June 20th, 2005)

Binary packages, ready to install and run :

• for Debian Linux
• for Mandrake Linux
• for Suse Linux
• for Arch Linux

Requirements, needed in order to compile or install Jackbeat :

• JACK Audio Connection Kit
• GTK+-2.0 toolkit
• sndfile library
• libxml2 library
• libsamplerate library

Please use the Jackbeat Forum for any feedback, comments, bug reports and help questions.

You can also mail me personally at : olivier [a.t] xung [d.o.t] org.

• To the JACK team, for this great framework,
• To Conrad Parker whose Aube project inspired me.
• To Guillaume Pellerin (yomix.org) and Paul Brossier (piem.org) for the Debian packages
• To Austin Acton (groundstate.ca) for the Mandrake packages
• To Toni aka oc2pus (jacklab.net) for the Suse packages