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Jokosher: audio production made simple.... someday

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Submitted by threethirty on Sun, 2007/02/04 - 7:10pm. Music & Video

Jokosher is a simple and powerful multi-track studio that uses Gstreamer. It provides a complete application for recording, editing, mixing and exporting audio, and has been specifically designed with usability in mind. The developers behind Jokosher have re-thought audio production at every level, and are creating something devilishly simple to use. It was started by Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical, and one of the hosts of LugRadio because Jono admitted that LugRadio is recorded in qbase in Widows. To which a bunch of the listeners "gave him a kicking. Less than a year ago they started this project and are about to release 0.9. 0.9 is really 1.0 but Jono and the team refuse to call it 1.0 until they have support for multiple input sound cards, this is not really a Jokosher problem but is an ALSA problem. If nothing else this project is improving Gstreamer and ALSA.

I have been doing testing for version 0.2 and its really cool but I have not been able to finish a single project. 0.9 will be installable in the next version of Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn)

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Jokosher does look nice

Submitted by Mark Stosberg on Mon, 2007/02/05 - 2:47am.

I'm not an audio buff, but from the screenshots, it certainly does look like a very user friendly application. I'll look forward to a follow-up report to see if a future release works for you.

I'm curious what a specific reason was why the current version didn't work sufficiently for you.

Mark

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I only had a couple of problems

Submitted by threethirty on Fri, 2007/02/09 - 11:13pm.

The problem that keeps me from finishing a project is that it uses Gstreamer head that you have to get out of subversion. That should be stable and default in Feisty but right now it's a little buggy and hard to install.

Their runscript is a bear until you install it the first time. It doesn't satisfy the dependencies. So you end up running the script. Waiting for it to fail. Then apt-getting the dependency, sometimes you have have to search synaptic to see if there is a package that is close to what it is complaining about. Then you run the script again, and start the whole process over again. It took me about four days to get it running.

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