Am 01.01.10 12:00, schrieb rosea grammostola: > > 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? > We had a discussion about the direction of hydrogen recently on our mailing list and decided that hydrogen should stay a something like a "drum machine" and is not going to be a live composing app ( Gabriel's "composite" is going in that direction). But beside that, often developers develop features which are useful for them :) You should also take into account that the piano roll editor is not meant as a replacement for a full midi sequencer, it is more like a extension to the existing sequencer. > 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. > The one-task-one-tool principle was *never* really used by hydrogen, so we can't stick with it :) Hydrogen has always been a tool which included things like a sequencers and combined them and was not only one thing. A lot of people like it this way, not at least because on other platforms ( hydrogen is used a lot on windows and osx ) people are not used to the modular way linux offers. But after all, we discuss a lot about which feature we really need and what not, so every comment is really welcome! Thanks, Sebastian _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
