GNU OCTAL is a
tracking-audio workstation for
gnu/linux and other
unix systems. It is designed as a
tool for
electronic musicians who wish to achieve high-quality
sound in a
tracker environment.
Why tracking? It's fun, it works, and with modern computing power at our disposal, it produces professional results. Best of all, it requires no special hardware.
The OCTAL system adapts some well-established ideas from music systems programming, while retaining tracker style:
Matrix-based sequencing
Software synthesis and sampling
Block-oriented computation
Graphical workspace
The project is currently in alpha, but is moving fast. Check www.gnu.org/software/octal for updates!