On 08/28/2009 07:36 PM, Sebastian Moors wrote: > On Friday 28 August 2009 05:39:15 Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> 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. >> > Hi, > > i'm happy to state that hydrogen IS able to play multiple patterns at the same > time. In hydrogen 0.9.4 we call that "stacked pattern mode". At the moment > you have to select the patterns with your mouse. > Wow, I hadn't put two and two together on that new feature. That is a massive chunk of the necessary functionality for AL like performance in place now. Can you expand a little on how to create a pattern stack? > It's not implemented to select patterns via midi, but if you really want it, > open a ticket[1] and i'm going to look at it when i've got time to.. > - Sebastian > > > [1]: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/hydrogen/tickets > > > Done. Cheers. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
