Sebastian Moors wrote: > Hi! > > just to make sure that nobody gets bored over the Christmas holidays we > decided to release the first beta version of hydrogen 0.9.5 as a special > gift for everyone.. This release is meant as a first "public" preview > and mainly for testing purposes. Here's a quick list of some new > features: > > - non destructive sample editor ( requires rubberband-cli for advanced > features ) > - a timeline > - instrument midi out > - better support for non-ascii filenames ( changed XML-Parser from > TinyXML to QtXml ) > - piano-roll editor > - export to ogg, aiff and flac > - commandline version of hydrogen > > The sourcecode and binaries (for Ubuntu 8.04 / 9.04 / 9.10 and Debian > Sid) are available here: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/hydrogen/files/. > Please report crashes and other glitches here: > http://www.assembla.com/spaces/hydrogen/tickets > > Merry Christmas to all of you and enjoy your holidays! > - Sebastian Thanks. But can I make an note here? I saw you're busy making an piano-roll editor for hydrogen. I really doubt whether that is the right direction for Hydrogen. Especially with in mind that there are already good midi sequencers on Linux or they are planned e.g. openoctavemidi, qtractor, ardour3 etc. Also the Hydrogen team was lacking time and developers for a long time afaik, so why make it yourself difficult now? I played yesterday with non-sequencer and hydrogen. I really don't need another midi sequencer, also not for live cause non-seq is good capable of doing that... What I do need is an drummachine with a quality as good as possible. Why not concentrate on that (not easy) task? More functions makes also the GUI more complex imo and simplicity in use was one of the powers of Hydrogen. Why not stick with the one-task-one-tool principle? It's not by accident that the openoctave team has stripped Rosegarden... I think with the progress of Ladish there is a great potential for this principle again. I'm happy though with the command line option. I also use Linuxsampler without frontend, that's just great. All the best, \r _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
