On 08/28/2009 01:26 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > > 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. > It does have code for looping a sequenced list. It doesn't have is an AL like grid for triggering samples. It does have the ability to trigger a sample manually. IIUC, it doesn't have functionality to play multiple patterns at the same time. So adding multi pattern support and a sample grid for triggering a pattern manually on/off would be a major leap towards AL like functionality. The grid should allow for unlimited patterns to be assigned to a session. The buttons would need to be assignable to midi triggers too. All the ground work has been laid and it is just a case of having the motivation to do it. I have been planning to contribute some code to this for a while but have not been able to make the time yet. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
