Weekly Open Source Software: Frinika
This post represents the start of something new on this blog. Each week I will make a post about an open source project. In generally, I will try to find lesser known software and positively critique it. I hope this will give everyday users a chance to discover new open source software, as well as developers to gain feedback.
To start off this weekly event, I would like to mention a music workstation software called Frinika for the Windows, Linux, and Mac operating environments. In simple words, it allows one to create music. It is still in development, but works relatively well.
Like many commercial equivalents, Frinika seems confusing to someone like me who wants to create software. The largest problem with Frinika is the lack of documentation describing how to use the software properly. It would be beneficial to see this project more user friendly, at least in terms of documentation, which would help create a larger user base.
Nevertheless, from playing with it, it seems to be a very powerful music workstation software. It’s complete with a sequencer, synths, notation editor and piano roll, among many other features. (The one major problem I found when playing with it was that placing notes with the notation editor was hard to deal with.)