On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Atte Andre Jensen wrote: >> Hydrogen has some similarities to AL... so I've pondered if it could be >> forked (or developed) to become a live DAW. > > Could you elaborate? What similarities, what's missing (just the big > picture), it's been a while since a glanced at hydrogen. The main feature of AL is the scenes and loop-based composition, right? This is essentially a specialized sequencer/sampler. And hydrogen is a sequencer/sampler. Further, Hydrogen is based on the idea of have several patterns (like a loop) that you set up. Then the song is composed in a sort of paint-by-numbers fashion. This is a lot like AL's scenes. Hydrogen also has some DAW-like features, including some primative mixing and FX. Hydrogen lacks any code for looping or beat slicing. Also, the audio internals are a little ugly IMHO -- but I've been working to improve that. When I'm done, I expect the backend to be *very* DAW-like. OTOH, a better starting point *might* be something like sooperlooper. > Just thinking about doing a high performance, jack enabled, realtime > friendly audio engine makes me tired (maybe because I wouldn't know the > first think in doing it right). Heh. That stuff that gets my motor running these days. :-) Peace, Gabriel _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
