Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
Features
General
- Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3.
- Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
- Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
Sequencer and mixer
- Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
- Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
- 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
- Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
- Ability to import/export song files.
- Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
- Multiple patterns playing at once.
Other
- JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
- ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
- Import/export of drumkits.
- Export song to wav file.
- Export song to midi file.
Hydrogen is the perfect linux solution for MIDI drumming. It contains a number of drum-kits, and there are many more available for download.
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One response to “Hydrogen - Free Drum Machine”
the major let down for me is the lack of MIDI file import! i'm not a fan of the clunky work around which relies on other software to reroute MIDI data. why not just open a MIDI file cleanly, and directly. this prevents interoperability with other MIDI composition software. There is a perl script lying around to do the conversion from midi to h2song. But then, you need perl and extra perl libraries. In fact, i tried to compile/package that perl script into a self contained executable, but to no success.
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