Jokosher is a

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, non-linear multi-track digital audio editor, released under the GPL-2.0-only. It is written in

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, using the GTK+ interface and

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as an audio back-end, initially just for the

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operating system but also with support for

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. 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.Jokosher >> Blog Archive >> Jokosher 0.2 Released
- Website news announcing the 0.2 release of Jokosher, and features. Development on the project stopped in April 2012,Launchpad code repository for the project
/ref> and the project is no longer active.Launchpad questions: "Is this project dead?"
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Background

At the beginning of 2006,

Jono Bacon Jonathan Edward James Bacon is a writer and software engineer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California. He works as a consultant on community strategy. History Bacon started his work with the Linux community when he ...

was dissatisfied with the available free and open source Linux multi-track editors, and used

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instead to produce LugRadio, a Linux fortnightly

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. He later on 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.jonobacon@home >> Building the Perfect Audio Editor
- Blog post announcing the direction of the project. 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 aims to use concepts familiar with the artists and musicians that use the program. This means that the user doesn't require great deal of familiarity with multi-track editors to be able to record.

Editing and mixing

Jokosher includes 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 can be added to a project, and instruments can be renamed. Instruments can also be muted and soloed easily.

Audio

Jokosher can import audio from

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, FLAC,

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and anything else supported by

into projects. After recording, it can export back to any of these formats.

GStreamer

Jokosher needs either the latest version of

and Gnonlin installed, or a Concurrent Versions System (CVS) checkout of GStreamer and Gnonlin compiled.InstallingCvsGstreamerJokosher
- Wiki page describing how to install CVS Gstreamer for use with Jokosher. This is because the newer versions of Gstreamer have features of which Jokosher is taking advantage. It also introduces many bug fixes that previously were blocking Jokosher from any kind of release. The Jokosher development team contributed greatly to the GStreamer development.

References

External links

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