Frinika 0.3.0-pre2 review

Frinika is a free, complete music workstation program for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and other operating systems running Java 1.

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Peter Salomonsen, Paul J. Leonard & Jon Akerstrom

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Frinika is a free, complete music workstation program for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and other operating systems running Java 1.5 (J2SE5.0). Frinika features a sequencer, soft-synths, real-time effects, and audio recording.

Here are some key features of "Frinika":
Pure Java 1.5 = cross-platform
Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX Tiger and other platforms supporting J2SE5.0
Old-school tracker inspired, but fully MIDI-compatible sequencer
Simple mixer
Automation through MIDI Control Change events
Realtime effects (echo, distortion ++)
Soft sampler with audio recording features
Limited Soundfont V2 import
Simple Analog synth
Interacts with other sound-applications using JACK audio connection kit (Linux only)
MIDI is native sequencer file format
All real-time effect and synth params are controlled through MIDI events
Can seperately load/save gear (synth setup & samples)
Fully self-contained project files (including synth setup, samples and sequence)
Direct export to WAV

What's New in 0.2.1 Stable Release:
This is mainly a bugfix release, but a new and noteworthy feature is that the sampler now also can record in Stereo.
See the changelog or details

What's New in 0.3.0-pre2 Development Release:
BUGFIX: Sometimes audio recording stop would hang (caused by nByte = 0 in AudioInOscillator)
Support for Jack 0.100
removed virtual piano from frinika source (now just in the rasmusDSP .jar)
Native allocation of Jack jni buffers are now only done once (instead of each process call)
Audio recording for Jack