Wired aims to be a professional music production and composition software running on Linux.
It brings musicians a complete studio environment to compose and record music without requiring expensive hardware.
Wired supports unlimited Audio/Midi tracks playback and recording, and introduces a Plugin system for instruments and effects. It can also read AKAI CDs and import 18 different Wave formats.
The following instruments and effects are being developed:
Loop sampler, with pitch shifting and time-stretching
Beatbox with a new editing concept, to create reallistic and complex drum sequences MIDI controlled sampler, which can read AKAI program and sample files. High-pass, Low-pass and Notch filters Compressor/Limiter Delay.
First offical version has been released and is available at http://bloodshed.net/wired.
The screenshots are looking great! And it’s always nice to see that they’ve chosen Qt for the job
I just noticed it’s wxWidgets/wxGTK, not Qt… too bad
Good job, both the website and the program are looking great (and it really does have a professional look to it, I like that)!
I use Linux full time and have just started recording my own music. It’s good to see that Linux is getting some good audio editing apps – now I won’t have to buy an iBook
So a program dealing with _sound_ / _music_ changed from “Cute!/great!” to “too bad” just because it does not use you favorite toolkit?
Pathetic
I’d be much more interested how good it does its job. How it compares to e.g. Ardour.
Why call it Wired? Like that name isn’t known already. Jeez, we *are* a slow-learning bunch!
Wxwidgets would mean that a cross platform free software project is possible unlike QT which doesnt have a gpl toolkit on windows.
But wxwidgets seems to be using gtk 1.x which is very bad. QT would be much better technically in that case
More importantly let someone comment on the features of the project instead of stupid arguments about toolkit
before it can compete with Cubase though….
But it is a nice project. One wonders why nobody started such a project sooner…
the trademark wont affect a completely different product in a different industry. talk about stuff you know
I really hope that they will be able to pull this one off. I like the fact that they will have AKAI support from start so I won’t have to convert all my banks.
It seems like a good start. I’ll keep watching its progress.
wxWidgets also has support for GTK2 (although I don’t know what Wired is using). And in any case, in audio apps like this most widgets are custom anyway, so the toolkit doesn’t matter that much.
Judging from the screenshots, they seem to have put a lot of work on the GUI. Of course, it remains to see how far the rest of the program is. But it definately looks promising. Weird how it just showed up from nowhere.
@Anonymous:
But wxwidgets seems to be using gtk 1.x which is very bad. QT would be much better technically in that case
Uh, I hardly see how. What if technically, they didn’t feel like distributing their software under the GPL or QPL? Oops, guess Gtk’s license is technically better then. Stop being narrowminded.
It brings musicians a complete studio environment to compose and record music without requiring expensive hardware.
What kind of argument is that? Very few recording softwares requires expensive hardware. The only one I can think of is pro tools, but you can live without that one.
You can make serious music with an SB16 as long as you just keep it inside the box and program the instruments.
…hope it will be possible to do a an OSX port :o)
I have been using the same SB Live Value card for recording for the past 3 years – it’s not great, but it does it’s job – I don’t know of any software that actually REQUIRES expensive hardware, except for protools.
Looks good, but until I see some seriously competitve softsynth, sampling, and FX engines, I’m going to be skeptical of it’s value as a solution to Linux recording/music production woes.
This looks like a nice application for musicians and those doing audio mixing/editing. I’ve added the developer link to my list “Software for 3D/2D Artists, Designers, etc” found here http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53452
“Uh, I hardly see how. What if technically, they didn’t feel like distributing their software under the GPL or QPL? Oops, guess Gtk’s license is technically better then. Stop being narrowminded.
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thats legality. technically gtk 1.x is very poor toolkit. are you even going to argue with that. those who want to distribute proprietary software like opera or adobe using qt they PAY for buying a non gpl version. YOU stop being narrow minded
“* Wired uses several libraries you need to install prior compiling it:
(…)
– wxWidgets 2.5.x with GTK2 support : http://www.wxwidgets.org“
Nowhere does it say it used JACK for plugins. Using the JACK standard for plugins is very important, I think.
Doesn’t it say it supports JACK? That’s what I read on their web site.
Good to see something for muso’s not being written in QT.
it is very clear it is using GTK2. The biggest giveaway should be antialiased text. And I happen to know that theme too.
Agreed. If that’s GTK 1.2, I’ll eat my hat.
I can’t get one of it’s dependencies to compile (the portaudio package) It just refuses to comple at all. Does anyone have a link to a debian package for portaudio?
GJ
deb http://www.fbriere.net/debian/dists/unstable ./
deb-src http://www.fbriere.net/debian/dists/unstable ./
Matches:
libportaudio0.0.18 18.1-0fbriere.2 (i386)
libportaudio0.0.18-dev 18.1-0fbriere.2 (i386)
courtesy of apt-get.org 😉
Thanks man…
GJ
I would like to see Wired to not have such dependencies like portaudio and Soundtouch. Portaudio’s compilation on Linux was a pain in the bum because it wasn’t standard procedure (I had to copy the header files manually to /usr/include), while Soundtouch simply doesn’t compile with my gcc 3.4.3:
mmx_gcc.cpp: In member function `virtual void TDStretchMMX::overlapStereo(short int*, const short int*) const’:
mmx_gcc.cpp:440: error: can’t find a register in class `GENERAL_REGS’ while reloading `asm’
make[2]: *** [mmx_gcc.lo] Error 1
As for Wired itself, it gives me this compilation error:
In file included from ../mixer/Channel.h:7,
from ../mixer/Mixer.h:8,
from ChannelGui.h:7,
from ChannelGui.cpp:2:
../engine/AudioEngine.h:87: error: expected `;’ before ‘(‘ token
../engine/AudioEngine.h:98: error: expected `,’ or `…’ before ‘*’ token
../engine/AudioEngine.h:101: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `PaStreamCallbackTimeInfo’ with no type
../engine/AudioEngine.h: In function `int AudioCallback(const void*, void*, long unsigned int, int)’:
../engine/AudioEngine.h:102: error: `userData’ undeclared (first use this function)
../engine/AudioEngine.h:102: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [ChannelGui.o] Error 1
I use Logic Audio everyday and I might have a tendancy to compare Wired to it……
Logic Audio is simply Awesome. That is not the point!
Modern Music, its’ creation, performance and recording is a huge Subject. There are wide open frontiers being explored everyday. Wired has a great start, and lives in an adventurous development community….with advanced expertise in distributed processing and networking, both of which could energize the program, and more importanly, inspire the people who associate with it.
There are lots and lots of families, students, and generally struggling pros, who need a genuine entry into the “new world”. Wired gives it, or shortly will, with the poteintial to go to a pro level. The knowledge of Digital Audio/Midi and the way it couples with computer technology, takes time to learn and translate into an elegant musical workflow. Wired is a good program to hang out with.
It has value and promise in my opinion.
Thanks for letting me know about it.
1) I have debian binaries for soundtouch
2) Had the same compilation error, went away after upgrading portaudio to version 0.19
the only issue remaining for me is with the wxwidgets headers. i’m guessing it needs a newer version than debian sid’s
heh, this reminds me of the mess in early stages of ardour’s development
I don’t use Debian, I use Arch Linux,
And I did manage to compile PortAudio. It needed to undefine MMX in a header file, otherwise it would stumble on the new gcc asm code.
As for Wired, yes, it requires a development version of wxWidgets. I am not going to upgrade my wxWidgets just for this app.
Cool! Will this support jack? LADSPA?
Of course, yeah, it says on the site, it supports jack. Hope it will output each channel seperatly. Sorry bout double post, now I’m off for downloading!