Jokosher
Digital audio editor for Linux and Windows From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jokosher was a free software, non-linear multi-track digital audio editor, released under the GPL-2.0-only. It was written in Python, using the GTK+ interface and GStreamer as an audio back-end, initially just for the Linux operating system but also with support for Windows.
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Latest trunk version of Jokosher (11 December 2006) | |
| Developer(s) | Jokosher community |
|---|---|
| Final release | 0.11.5
/ 11 April 2010 |
| Written in | Python (GTK+) |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows |
| Type | Digital audio editor |
| License | GPL-2.0-only with exception |
| Website | launchpad |
It was released to the public on 21 July 2006. Version 0.2 was publicly released on 20 November 2006 and it included support for extensions, LADSPA effects, and many bug fixes.[1] Development on the project stopped in April 2012,[2] and the project is no longer active.[3]
Background
At the beginning of 2006, Jono Bacon was dissatisfied with the available free and open source Linux multi-track editors, and used Cubase instead to produce LugRadio, a Linux fortnightly podcast. He later conceived the idea of what initially was Jonoedit. The name Jokosher came later, a pun on the fact that his name contains the phrase "no bacon". The aim was to create an open source multi-track editor that was easy to use, so the user did not require an understanding of multi-track recording.[4]
Using LugRadio, his blog and the various planet aggregators connected to it, a community came together to form the Jokosher art, coding, documentation, and packaging teams working on the project.
Features
Ease of use
The interface aimed to use concepts familiar with the artists and musicians that used the program. This means that the user wouldn't require great deal of familiarity with multi-track editors to be able to record.
Editing and mixing
Jokosher included tools for splitting, trimming and moving, when editing. During the mixing, multi-track volume is available with VU sliders. Audio-tracks are called "instruments" in Jokosher. A range of instruments could be added to a project, and instruments renamed. Instruments could also be muted and soloed easily.
Audio
Jokosher could import audio from Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, WAV and anything else supported by GStreamer into projects. After recording, it could export back to any of these formats.[5]
GStreamer
Jokosher needed either the latest version of GStreamer and Gnonlin installed, or a Concurrent Versions System (CVS) checkout of GStreamer and Gnonlin compiled.[6] This was because Jokosher took advantage of features and bug fixes available in the latest versions of Gstreamer available at the time. The Jokosher development team also contributed to GStreamer development.
See also
References
External links
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