On Fri Aug 28 13:26 , "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" sent: > > >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. :-) > Reading this is getting my motor running.. I would love to eventually be able to drop my MPC2000 xl driven hardware rig for something Linux driven.. with MIDI controllers (and still keeping some of my hardware synths).. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
