jackbeat(1)

jackbeat1

A drummachine-like audio sequencer with jack support

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the jackbeat command.

Jackbeat is an audio sequencer with the following features:

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drummachine-like interface for fast and easy editing

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realtime operation: while playing, the pattern can be edited and resized, the bpm rate modified, and new samples loaded

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virtually unlimited number of tracks and beats

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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, jamin, etc...

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loads and saves .jab files, Jackbeat's file format, based on XML and packed with tar

Options

jackbeat takes no command line arguments.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0

Author

This manual page was written by Paul Brossier <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

From jackbeat 0.6.2-1 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.