Jackbeat 0.7.6

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

Requirements:
· JACK Audio Connection Kit
· GTK+-2.0 toolkit
· sndfile library
· libxml2 library
· libsamplerate library

Here are some key features of "Jackbeat":

· Drummachine interface with accurate VU meters for easy editing
· Realtime 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.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· #61: fix compiling on recent x86_64 Linux systems such as Fedora 13
· do not try and connect to PulseAudio by default, it may deadlock