= FreeMix =

The FreeMix project aims to produce a series of programs for realtime audio mixing and editing, suitable for live performance. Its structure is heavily influenced by  [http://www.ffem.org/gdam GDAM (the Geoff & Dave's Audio Mixer)], modified and simplified where necessary (see [wiki:PortingGdam Why we haven't simply ported GDAM to GTK+ 2]). ''It's '''free software''', released under the terms of the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#TOCGPL GNU GPL].''

'''The project is still in the development phase. The current code is unstable and is not very useful, but the base funtionality works.''' If you're still interested, check out the [wiki:Status Status page].

== Planned features ==
Note: these are just ''planned'' features. For the current status of the project, see the [wiki:Status Status page].
 * support for many audio formats (both open and proprietary), thanks to the [http://www.gstreamer.net GStreamer] framework used for input (MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, WAV, WMA, MOD, ...)
 * core / UI separation - a !FreeMix server can be controlled from different interfaces, both [wiki:FmGui graphical] (with a [http://www.gtk.org GTK+ 2] GUI) and [wiki:FmMidi hardware-based], even running from different machines on a LAN
 * support for [wiki:FmMidi MIDI] devices and [http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/ OSC] remote control
 * audio input and output managed by [http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ JACK], for low-latency playback and the ability to capture sound from hardware inputs and other applications' output and apply effects to it
 * full support for [http://www.ladspa.org/ LADSPA] and [http://lv2plug.in/ LV2] plugins
 * runs on [wiki:SupportedPlatforms GNU/Linux], [wiki:SupportedPlatforms FreeBSD], [wiki:SupportedPlatforms Apple OS X] and [wiki:SupportedPlatforms Microsoft Windows]

== Screenshots ==
Some [wiki:Screenshots screenshots] from an older version.

== Download ==
The latest source code (and its history) is available in source form from our [wiki:DownloadSource Subversion repository].

Some binary packages for various systems are available from our [wiki:DownloadPackages Packages Download page].

[wiki:OldReleases Sources and packages] for older versions.

== Documentation ==

Don't forget to read the [wiki:Faq Frequently Asked Questions].

As the project hasn't released any stable release, we don't have much user documentation available yet. Interested developers (and hopefully contributors :)) can access the [wiki:FreeMixDevelIntro FreeMix Developer pages].