Named after a famous droidsmith who's said to be able to reprogram any droid and even make them speak Sith, Babu Frik is a software app that allows you to control and explore the sonic possibilities of the KIJIMI synthesiser by Black Corporation. It works both as a stand-alone app and as an audio plug-in with automatable parameters.
With Babu Frik you can import KIJIMI banks (from files or from KIJIMI itself), edit patches and export them. When you import a bank, a Timbre Space will be created which will allow you to navigate all the patches in a colourful space and create new ones. Just click anywhere on the Timbre Space and play the synth. Click on another point to get a new patch. Close points in the space will result in similar sounding patches.
Babu Frik includes all the controls you'll find the main panel of KIJIMI, but also includes extra panels which will allow you to control all the extra KIJIMI menu-hidden options, including the 16 individual LFOs.
Checkout Babu Frik's website for more information.
Subscribe to the Babu Frik mailing list if you want to receive news about new releases, etc.
Babu Firk is a reality thanks to the Kickstarter backers and the help and contributions by Black Corportation. Check out the Kickstarter campaign page for more information about the campagin.
You'll find download links in the Babu Frik website and also in the Releases section of this code repository. Don't hesitate to report bugs or make suggestions using the tools in the issues section.
Please check the user manual for an explanation of the different features of Babu Frik and how to use it.
Babu Frik is implemented as a JUCE audio plug-in/standalone app and can be edited and built using standard JUCE workflows. To build Baby Frik you need to
- checktout the code repository including submodules;
git clone https://github.com/RitaAndAurora/kijimi-babu-frik.git && cd kijimi-babu-frik.git && git submodule update --init
- open the project files for XCode (macOS) and Visual Studio 2019 (windows) you'll find in the
Builds/folder and compile the projects there.
For advanced development options you'll need to open the BabuFrik.jucer using JUCE's Projucer, but this is not needed for basic edits and/or building Babu Frik. Note that if you go that way you'll need a Projucer version which is compatible with Babu Frik. The best way to go is to compile Projucer from the JUCE submodule in the code repository (i.e. use project files in 3rdParty/JUCE/extras/Projucer/Builds/).
Babu Frik is released under the GPLv3 open source software license (see LICENSE file) with the code being available at https://github.com/ritaandaurora/kijimi-babu-frik. Babu Frik uses the following open source software libraries:
- tapkee, available under BSD 3-clause license
- delaunator-cpp, available underMIT license
- juce, available under GPLv3 license
If you want to support the development of Babu Frik and similar tools you can consider making a donation. That will make me very happy :)
Babu Frik has been ideated and developed by Rita & Aurora, a sort of fancy branding name I've given to my audio-developer self. Nevertheless, Babu Frik would have not been possible without the generous contributions of BLACK CORPORATION and the KICKSTARTER BACKERS. Infinite thanks to all of you:
- FREQNOIR
- MONTY BRANDENBERG
- ROB BEKHUIS
- RODRIGUE DUCOURANT
- RON DEACON
- STEPHEN DRAKE
- Anasia
- Antonio Martinez
- Derek Matthew Duke
- DSL-man
- Eric Harder
- Jeremy Curtis
- Kevin T. Looney
- Neil Huxley
- Robert Kukuchka
- Rupert Williams
- STEGA
- triangle
- Unkar Plutt
- Christer Janson
- Claudiu D.
- Cléo
- Jake Boswell
- Jon Daou
- Kevin Meyer
- Reggie Barnes
- Alex Taam
- Dan Formless (Forward Movement)
- David Forman
- Janne Isotalo
- Morgan Ross
- Pyramid
- René M Thalund
